The cartographers labelled them simply "Monuments", which tells you both everything and nothing. By the time the same ground was surveyed again for the 1920 edition, the label had quietly changed to "Monuments (Site of)", a parenthetical that speaks volumes about how much had already been lost. Today there is nothing visible at the location at all.

What those three structures actually were is not known. One possibility raised by researchers is that they were penitential cairns, small mounds of stone that pilgrims would build up or add to as an act of devotion or penance, often as part of a pattern, the traditional Irish form of religious circuit walk associated with a sacred site. The proximity to Loughkeeran holy well would fit that interpretation neatly; holy wells were focal points for exactly this kind of ritual activity, and the landscape around Carrownacross already carried considerable ceremonial weight. A church lies roughly 400 metres to the north-east, and a rath, a circular earthwork enclosure typically dating to the early medieval period, sits around 170 metres to the south. Whatever the three monuments were, they occupied ground that had been in active, layered use for a very long time.

The gap between the 1838 record and the 1920 one is only eighty-odd years, yet it was apparently enough for the structures to disappear entirely from the surface of the land, leaving only their name on a map and a cluster of unresolved questions about what people once did there.