The configuration was unusual enough to earn the designation "anomalous", meaning it does not fit neatly into the recognised categories of prehistoric stone arrangements found elsewhere in Ireland, such as the more familiar stone rows or stone circles of the region. When surveyors recorded the site in 1992, they found two pairs of parallel upright stones spaced roughly fifteen metres apart from one another. The northernmost pair stood 1.5 metres apart, with the taller stone reaching 1.5 metres in height; the southernmost pair were somewhat shorter and closer together, standing just 0.6 metres apart. What purpose such an arrangement served is not recorded, and the east-west orientation, while suggestive of solar alignment, is not enough on its own to draw firm conclusions.

The site has since been significantly altered, and what surveyors recorded in 1992 no longer exists in its original form. Three of the four stones were removed by Cork County Council during road widening works, and their present whereabouts are unknown. The fourth stone, originally the northern upright of the northernmost pair, was not destroyed but displaced; it now sits incorporated into a roadside field boundary approximately twenty metres north of where it originally stood. Adding another layer of significance to this already complicated field, a children's burial ground lies roughly twenty metres to the north-east, in the corner of the same pasture. Such burial grounds, sometimes called cilliní, were historically used in Ireland for the interment of unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground, and their proximity to older prehistoric features is not uncommon across the Irish landscape, though the relationship between the two here is unclear.