There is one upright boulder and two lying flat, accompanied by scattered smaller stones and a handful of granite packing stones, yet surveyors across two centuries have struggled to agree on what, exactly, they are looking at. That uncertainty is itself part of what makes this place worth knowing about.

The stones appear on both the 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch map and the later 1897 twenty-five-inch map under the name 'Crom Leac', a term with associations in Irish tradition with ancient, often idol-like stone monuments. Despite this, the compilers of the 1841 Ordnance Survey Name Book recorded the feature simply as a standing stone, a misidentification later flagged by de Valera and Ó Nualláin in the Megalithic Survey of Ireland, published in 1982. The OS description at the time noted only 'a standing stone having another stone lying by it', which suggests that even then the full picture was not being captured. When surveyors visited in 1996, they found something more complex: three large boulders of sedimentary, hard shale-like material, one still upright and orientated on a north-east to south-west axis, standing 1.62 metres tall and 1.51 metres wide, and two others lying flat, the larger of which measures 2.5 metres in length. The presence of granite packing stones, used to stabilise or prop an upright, hints at deliberate human arrangement, though the site's classification remains officially anomalous. It lies around 200 metres west of a ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure of the kind built across Ireland from the early medieval period onward, which adds another layer of quiet complexity to the landscape.

The stones are visible at the southern end of a field, which can be confirmed on satellite imagery, though access to private pasture in rural Limerick requires the usual courtesies extended to working farmland. There are no formal facilities or signage here. The flat terrain means the rise the stones occupy is subtle rather than dramatic, and the upright, while substantial, does not announce itself from a distance. Worth looking for are the packing stones around the base of the upright, which are easy to miss but tell a more deliberate story than the boulders alone might suggest.