When the Ordnance Survey compilers noted it in their Name Book in 1842, they described it as a circle of gallauns, a term for standing stones used in Irish antiquarian tradition, while also noting that it was "commonly called a stone circle in other parts of the country." That hedging is telling. The site apparently did not sit comfortably within any standard classification, which is why it was eventually logged not as a stone circle but as an anomalous stone group.

At the time of the 1842 survey, four stones were recorded: three still upright and one fallen flat. Whether they formed part of a true ceremonial stone circle, a smaller alignment, or something more ambiguous is no longer possible to determine with any confidence. Stone circles in Cork and Kerry tend to follow fairly consistent regional patterns, typically with an odd number of stones and a distinctive recumbent, or deliberately laid-flat, stone at one side. This group's four-stone configuration and uncertain layout made it difficult to assign to any recognised type. Subsequent fieldwork has compounded the mystery rather than resolved it. Today the site is recorded as having no visible surface trace, meaning whatever stones once stood in that pasture are no longer apparent above ground, whether removed, buried, or simply lost to centuries of agricultural use.