Two are willow, one is blackthorn, each roughly eight centimetres in diameter and rising about eighty centimetres from the ground. What makes them quietly remarkable is not their scale but their detail: the stakes carry visible tooling marks, meaning someone deliberately cut and shaped them before driving them into the waterlogged earth. That act of shaping, preserved in the wood, is a faint but legible human signature left behind in the bog.

The site was recorded in 1992 as part of a survey conducted by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, a project focused on documenting archaeological monuments in and around the lake. The findings were published by Jennings in 1995. Peatlands are exceptionally good at preserving organic material, including wood, because the waterlogged, acidic conditions slow decay almost to a standstill. This is why a few modest stakes, which would have rotted away without trace in ordinary soil, can survive here long enough to be recorded and studied. What purpose the row served is not stated in the archaeological record. It may have marked a boundary, supported a structure, or guided access to the water's edge; the tooling marks confirm deliberate human intent, but the wider context has not been recovered. Sometimes archaeology offers a clear answer, and sometimes it offers only the fact of a presence.