What makes the pair quietly puzzling is that one of them is no longer standing at all; the southern stone leans against its neighbour, propped there by centuries of slow settlement or some long-forgotten disturbance. Yet the geometry of the two stones suggests this was not always so. If the leaning stone were returned to the vertical, its top would sit at roughly the same height as the stone holding it up, implying the pair were once carefully matched, both reaching somewhere around two metres into the air.

Standing stones of this kind are scattered across the Irish landscape and date in most cases to the Bronze Age, though their precise purposes remain contested. Some mark boundaries, some are thought to have a funerary or ritual function, and some may have served as waymarkers or astronomical sightlines. Pairs are less common than single examples, which makes the arrangement at Curraghoo More of particular interest. The site was recorded and described by Ruaidhri de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin in their 1982 survey of prehistoric monuments, which noted the stones' dimensions and orientation. The northern stone remains fully erect, measuring 2.05 metres in height and roughly 1.35 metres across at its broadest face. The southern stone, taller at an estimated 2.4 metres if upright and notably thinner, now rests its weight against the first, the two locked together in what has become an unplanned kind of companionship.