What they are looking at is a group of boulder burials, a Bronze Age monument type in which a large flat stone, the cover-stone, is raised on smaller support stones to create a low, table-like structure beneath which human remains were interred. The form is relatively rare and concentrated in the southwest of Ireland, and what makes this particular site unusual is not just the presence of two confirmed examples and a probable third, but the fact that they form part of a wider ceremonial complex alongside a five-stone circle and a pair of standing stones.

The arrangement is detailed enough to suggest deliberate spatial planning. The first boulder burial sits two metres southwest of the axial stone of the five-stone circle, its cover-stone measuring roughly 1.5 metres by 1.3 metres and resting on three support stones. A second large boulder, approximately 4.5 metres to the south, is thought to be a cover-stone as well, though no support stones are currently visible beneath it. A further 4.5 metres south again, two support stones of a third burial survive, with a displaced cover-stone, the largest of the group at 1.9 metres by 1.5 metres, lying flat on the ground beside them. The displacement of that final cover-stone hints at disturbance over the centuries, whether by human hand, agricultural activity, or simple subsidence. The site was catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1978, whose survey work across Cork and Kerry remains a foundational reference for understanding this category of monument.