It is a quietly remarkable fate for what was once a megalithic tomb, the kind of ancient monument that farmers have been absorbing into field walls, gateposts, and outbuildings for centuries, simply because the stones were already there and too large to move far.

William Wilde, writing in 1872, recorded the site as the remains of a cromleach, the older term for what we would now call a portal tomb or dolmen, a structure in which large upright stones support a massive capstone to form a chamber. He noted the top stone measured nine and a half feet, roughly 2.9 metres, in length. He also recorded its local name: Leaba Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne, which translates loosely as the Bed of Diarmuid and Gráinne. This name was applied so widely across Ireland to megalithic structures that Wilde acknowledged it himself, noting these monuments were termed as such structures usually are. The name comes from the medieval tale of Diarmuid and Gráinne, in which the pair are perpetually fleeing across Ireland, and folklore came to associate every large prehistoric stone with one of their supposed resting places. What survives today are two stones, each measuring approximately 2.3 metres long and 2.2 metres high. One stands upright, aligned on a north-east to south-west axis, while the second rests against its north-east end, both now incorporated into the fabric of a shed.

The site sits roughly 170 metres east of Kildaree Church, though the practical details of access to the shed and its stones remain unrecorded.