One stands upright, roughly eighty centimetres tall and orientated along a west-northwest to east-southeast axis; the other lies flat, partially swallowed by the soil about a metre and a half away. Local knowledge, passed down rather than recorded in any formal document, holds that they mark a grave.

The stones are positioned on the south-east side of a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, consisting of a roughly circular area surrounded by an earthen bank and sometimes a ditch. The rath at Rushanes is now little more than the remnant of that bank, densely overgrown with blackthorn. The burial sits just outside this boundary, which is itself suggestive. In Irish tradition, liminal spaces, the edges of enclosures, the margins between one defined place and another, carried particular significance for burials that fell outside the churchyard norm. Whether the interment predates the rath, is contemporary with it, or belongs to a later period entirely, the stones alone cannot say. What survives is modest: two slabs, a remembered association, and the thorny tangle of a much older landscape growing over both.