Roughly six feet long, each covered by three slabs, they had the proportions and the form of a burial. But when examined, they contained no bones, no remains, nothing to confirm what they appeared to be.

The structures came to light through local information and were recorded by archaeologist J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a systematic catalogue of the antiquities of the Corca Dhuibhne region. Beyond their dimensions and their slab covers, very little can be said with confidence. Whether they were burials from which remains had long since dissolved in the acidic coastal soil, cenotaphs of a kind, storage cists, or something else entirely, is not recorded. The absence of skeletal material is not unusual in itself; soil conditions along the Atlantic seaboard can consume bone completely over centuries. But it does leave the question of purpose genuinely open.