Four stones in total, they resist easy classification: three are thin, upright sandstone slabs arranged roughly in a line running northeast to southwest, while the middle stone in that alignment is not a slab at all but a rounded quartzite boulder. Then there is a fourth stone, set apart from the others by about 1.8 metres and oriented at roughly right angles to the southwestern slab. The mix of materials and the asymmetrical layout are what make this group unusual. In Irish archaeology, the label "anomalous" is used precisely when a site shows some of the features of a recognised monument type, such as a standing stone or a stone row, but not enough of them to be confidently assigned to one.

The word "galláin" is the Irish plural for standing stones, and that is what the Ordnance Survey mapped here in 1939, marking two stones on the six-inch sheet under that name. The discrepancy between the two stones recorded then and the four that exist on the ground today may reflect changes in the survey rather than changes to the site itself. The three sandstone slabs vary in height from 0.83 metres to 1.2 metres, while the quartzite boulder reaches 0.8 metres. The fourth stone, the one that breaks from the dominant northeast-southwest alignment, is the tallest and thinnest of the group at 1.17 metres high and only 0.14 metres wide, its long axis running northwest to southeast. Whether these stones were erected together, added to over time, or represent something partially dismantled or rearranged is not known. The hill-top position is typical of prehistoric standing stone sites in Cork, which often occupy elevated ground with wide views across the surrounding landscape.