They are classified simply as an anomalous stone group, a designation that signals uncertainty rather than confident identification. Nobody is entirely sure what they are, what arrangement they once formed, or why they were placed there at all.

The uncertainty deepens when you learn that what is visible today is almost certainly incomplete. According to O'Brien, writing in 1970, further stones that had lain beneath the surface were removed during the construction of a nearby bridge, presumably quarried as convenient building material without much thought for what they might represent. Local tradition has long held that the site marks a burial, which would place these stones in a broad and ancient category of funerary landscape markers, though without excavation that remains exactly what it is, a tradition rather than a confirmed fact. Bog settings like this one are particularly difficult to read archaeologically. Peat accumulates over centuries, concealing and distorting, and what protrudes above the surface may bear little resemblance to the original configuration of a monument.

The site sits in open bogland, and the three remaining stones are low-lying, the kind of feature that would be easy to walk past without registering. The surrounding landscape of Slieve Miskish, a mountain range running along the Beara Peninsula, is itself largely undisturbed, which gives the stones their context even if it cannot give them their meaning.