The stakes are slender, averaging around three centimetres in diameter, and unremarkable to look at, yet the tool marks and facets cut into the wood show that someone shaped them deliberately, with care and intention. What purpose they served is unclear. They may have marked a boundary, supported a structure, or formed part of a trackway or fishing installation. The peat that surrounds them has kept that question open for however long they have been there.

The stakes came to light in 1992, when the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit carried out a systematic survey of archaeological monuments in and around Lough More. Wetland archaeology of this kind, which focuses on sites preserved in bogs, lakes, and waterlogged ground, has proved remarkably productive in Ireland, because peat suppresses the oxygen and microbial activity that would otherwise break down organic material. Wood that would have rotted away centuries ago in drier conditions can survive here in legible detail. The survey findings were published by Jennings in 1995, where this post row is catalogued as monument MA-BN 0010. The toolmarks noted at the time confirm the wood was worked rather than incidentally deposited, but no further interpretation was recorded.