The stones themselves are unadorned, the kind of markers that could easily be passed over, yet they sit in a landscape dense with early Christian remains and attract a question that nobody has quite resolved: do these slabs actually mark what their name suggests, or did cartographers simply misplace the label?

The physical arrangement is split across two adjacent fields. The first element is a plain limestone pillar, roughly 2.8 metres tall, set within a low rectangular cairn, a loose mound of stones, measuring about 3.5 metres long and half a metre high. Some fifteen metres to the east, in the neighbouring field, are five thin rectangular limestone slabs aligned roughly north to south; three stand on edge, partly propped by small cairns, while two lie flat, and a small rectangular pillar stands at the northern end. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1927, compiled by O'Flanagan, describe the slabs as four flags said to mark the graves of the Four Beauties, and the feature was recorded under that name on the OS six-inch maps. The problem is that islanders themselves used the name Leaba an Cheathrair Álainn for an enclosure to the east of the nearby Teampall na Ceathrair Álainn, the Church of the Four Beauties, which stands roughly 150 metres away. This discrepancy raises the real possibility that when the surveyors came to name the stones on their maps, they attached a local place-name to the wrong feature entirely. The true burial place of the legendary four, if such a place ever existed, may have been the church enclosure all along.

A possible holy well lies immediately to the south of the stone grouping, adding another layer to a site that already sits at the intersection of landscape, folklore, and cartographic ambiguity. Visitors to Inis Oírr who make their way to the area near Teampall na Ceathrair Álainn will find the pillar and slabs in the fields to the west, easy to locate but easy to misread, which, given the site's history, seems somehow appropriate.