Some stand upright, others have fallen, and they range in height from around a quarter of a metre to just under a metre. The stones themselves are unremarkable in isolation, but the tradition attached to them gives the site an unsettled quality: this is said to mark the aftermath of a battle between local clans, with the dead buried in the ground to the south and west of the stone cluster.

The association between standing stone groupings and conflict or communal burial is not unusual in Irish folklore, where oral tradition often preserved memories of events that left no written record. Whether the stones here were deliberately placed as a memorial, or whether they were pre-existing features onto which a local story was later grafted, is not clear. What is recorded is the consistent local belief that violence and burial lie beneath and around this boggy patch of ground, hemmed in by rock.