One stone rises just over a metre from the ground, roughly rectangular in section and oriented along a NNW-SSE axis. The second, slightly shorter and broader, leans against the first, resting against its NNE face. What makes this pair quietly puzzling is precisely that relationship between them, and the question of whether it was always so.

Galláns, a term used in Irish archaeology for standing stones or large upright monoliths, are common enough across Cork, but they rarely come with a documented record of change. Here, the arrangement appears to have shifted over time. Writing in 1917, Conlon described the two galláns as touching one another. By 1939, Hartnett recorded the second stone lying on the ground close to the upright. Today it leans against it. Whether the second stone fell at some point between those two observations and was later propped back up, or whether the earlier accounts describe a different configuration entirely, the sequence of records leaves the picture open. The site is classified as anomalous because it does not fit neatly into the recognised categories of prehistoric stone monument, such as a stone pair, an alignment, or a single standing stone. Its designation reflects that ambiguity rather than resolving it.