They are not arranged in any obvious pattern, they do not form a circle or row, and the word used officially to describe them, "anomalous", captures something genuine about how they sit in the landscape: separate, random, resisting the categories that archaeologists normally reach for.

The tallest stone stands roughly in the middle of the group, rising to just under a metre, with its long axis oriented northeast to southwest. Two others remain upright; the rest are leaning, fallen, or so low and rounded as to be almost boulder-like. The spread of the whole group runs about twenty metres north to south. Locally, the area is known as Áit a' Ghalláin, which translates from the Irish as "the place of the gallaun", a gallaun being a single standing stone, typically an ancient marker or monument. That the place-name refers to a single stone when the site actually holds thirteen is one of the quieter puzzles here. The name may preserve a memory of the site when only one stone was prominent, or it may simply reflect how people oriented themselves towards the tallest upright. Either way, the Irish-language toponym is considerably older than any formal archaeological record. The stones do not stand alone in this landscape: an enclosure with an internal hut site lies about a hundred metres to the southwest, and a coastal promontory fort, the kind of defended headland enclosure common along the southwest Irish coast, sits roughly a hundred and ninety metres to the south, overlooking the sea.