The monument type is known as a four-poster, a Bronze Age configuration in which four upright stones are set at the corners of a rough rectangle or square. Here, only three survive, though their spacing and alignment carry the geometry of the original form clearly enough for the classification to hold. It is a quietly unsettling thing, this incomplete square, the absence of one stone making the intended shape somehow more legible than it might otherwise be.

The three stones vary considerably in size. The largest, at the north-east corner, has split into two pieces and stands about 1.55 metres high, while the stone 2.1 metres to its south-west reaches 1.2 metres, and a third, positioned 1.75 metres to the south-east of the first, is the smallest at 0.7 metres in height. What makes the broader setting particularly interesting is the landscape context. Traces of pre-bog field fences survive in the vicinity, meaning the monument once stood in a worked, organised landscape before the bog grew over and around it, sealing those earlier boundaries beneath peat. Some 90 metres to the north-east lies a radial-stone enclosure, a circular or near-circular arrangement of stones set like the spokes of a wheel, which suggests this part of the hillside held some concentration of prehistoric activity. The site was recorded by O Nualláin in 1984 and published in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork in 1992.