Two upright slabs stand side by side, their long axes oriented north to south. The taller of the pair reaches 1.3 metres, a thin rectangular slab. Its companion is lower, at around 0.55 metres, and noticeably different in character, rounded and smooth rather than angular. Just to the east, three further stones of broadly similar dimensions lie flat or nearly so, one of them partially swallowed by the ground. It is the combination that gives the site its designation as anomalous: the arrangement does not fit neatly into any recognised category of prehistoric monument.

What makes the group stranger still is its relationship to a nearby standing stone, roughly 60 metres to the south-west. Standing stones, single upright monoliths erected during the Bronze Age in Ireland, are common enough across Cork. What surrounds them is usually unremarkable farmland. Here, the proximity of a separate and structurally different cluster raises the possibility of some deliberate spatial relationship between the two features, though what that relationship meant to the people who placed these stones in the ground remains entirely open. The fallen or recumbent stones to the east add further uncertainty: they may have once stood upright, or they may always have lain as they do now. One being partially buried suggests long, slow disturbance rather than sudden collapse.