The spread measures around 25 metres in diameter, a quiet anomaly in an otherwise ordinary agricultural field, bisected by a field bank running northeast to southwest that was presumably laid out long after the stones were deposited. It is the kind of site that appears and disappears with the farming calendar, and has been documented from satellite imagery on at least two separate occasions.

A polished stone axehead was recovered from within the burnt material, an object that places the site in a broad prehistoric context. Polished stone axes are generally associated with the Neolithic period, a time when such tools were used for woodworking and land clearance, and occasionally deposited in ways that suggest deliberate, non-functional intent. The axehead has since been deposited with the National Museum of Ireland. The site was first reported and recorded by Colm Moriarty, and without that initial observation it might have remained entirely unnoticed, surfacing briefly with each ploughing and then disappearing again beneath the turned earth.