They sit only 2.4 metres apart, yet their long axes run perpendicular to one another, which is what earns this pair the designation "anomalous". Most paired standing stones in Ireland share a broadly parallel or deliberately aligned orientation; these two seem to face different directions entirely, as if each is attending to a separate concern.

The taller of the two stands to the south-west, rising to 1.85 metres and measuring roughly 0.9 metres by 0.8 metres at its base. It leans slightly southward and its long axis runs north-east to south-west. The shorter stone, to the north-east, reaches only 0.75 metres and is narrower, at 0.75 metres by 0.4 metres, with its long axis oriented north-west to south-east. Whether these stones were raised together as a pair with some intended purpose, or whether one was placed at a different time and the pairing is coincidental, is not known. The term "anomalous" in archaeological classification is itself telling; it signals that a site does not fit the recognised categories of boulder burial, stone pair, or stone row, and so sits in a kind of typological awkwardness that can be more interesting than a straightforwardly classified monument.