They are close enough to touch, their long axes aligned along a north-north-west to south-south-east line, and it is this combination, two contiguous upright stones with a shared orientation, that earns them the quietly loaded label "anomalous". In the taxonomy of Irish prehistoric monuments, anomalous is the archaeological equivalent of a polite shrug: the site has clearly been arranged with some intention, but it refuses to resolve neatly into a recognised type such as a stone pair, a boulder burial, or a portal tomb.

The two stones are not especially large. The taller stands 1.22 metres high and measures 0.76 metres by 0.18 metres across its face; its companion reaches around a metre, with a slightly broader profile of 0.76 metres by 0.24 metres. Their modest scale makes the deliberateness of their placement all the more interesting. Standing stones of this kind are generally thought to date from the Bronze Age, though in the absence of excavation it is rarely possible to be more precise than that broad span. What they marked, or whether they once formed part of a larger arrangement, is unknown. The flat ground around them offers no obvious topographic reason for the choice of location, which only deepens the puzzle.