The stones, three large blocks accompanied by three smaller ones, rise only about 65 centimetres above the surrounding grassland on a mound roughly ten metres across. Modest by any measure, and yet the site carries a local memory that places it firmly within one of the more quietly charged traditions in Irish religious life: it is known in the area as a mass rock.

Mass rocks are the scattered outdoor altars, often little more than a flat stone in an open field, where Catholic priests celebrated Mass in secret during the Penal Laws of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when public Catholic worship was suppressed under legislation enacted after the Williamite settlement. The association of this site with that tradition is significant, even if the stones themselves may have an entirely different origin. When the archaeologists Ruairí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin examined the site and recorded it in 1972, they were cautious: their assessment was that the formation may be largely natural, meaning the mound and its stones could simply be a quirk of the local geology rather than the result of human construction or arrangement. The site had already appeared on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in 1932, marked as a small mound, suggesting it was considered noteworthy enough to record even then, though without any definitive classification.

What the site illustrates is how a natural feature can accumulate human meaning over time. If the stones are indeed geological rather than arranged by hand, they were still chosen, at some point, as a place of worship, sheltered enough or simply remote enough to serve a congregation that had no other option. The label anomalous, used in its formal archaeological sense, reflects genuine uncertainty about whether this is a monument at all, but the local name anchors it in a very specific chapter of Irish history regardless of what the stones themselves turn out to be.