The name is the kind that tends to accumulate around ancient-looking stonework in rural Ireland, often without any direct connection to druidic practice, but reflecting instead a long folk memory of something old and unexplained sitting in the landscape. What made this particular group worth noting was its appearance: the stones looked, to those who examined them, like the remnants of a collapsed megalithic structure. Megalithic simply means built of large, roughly dressed stones, and the term covers everything from portal tombs to stone circles and burial chambers, many of which do survive in Cork in various states of ruin.

The site was recorded by University College Cork and included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, which catalogued monuments across the county during the 1990s. At the time of recording, the stones were described as an anomalous group, meaning they could not be definitively classified as any known monument type, though their size and arrangement suggested something of prehistoric origin. The story did not end there, however. The stones were subsequently removed and pushed into a nearby field boundary, the kind of low drystone or earthen wall used to divide agricultural land. It is a fate that has befallen a great many ancient stones across Ireland, particularly on working farmland where large loose boulders are an obstacle rather than an attraction. Once incorporated into a field boundary, any structural relationship between the stones is lost, and with it much of whatever evidence might have remained.