Neither the 1842 nor the 1904 editions of the six-inch maps record any of them. It was only by 1936 that cartographers caught up with what was already very old indeed, marking two of the stones in Laght Wood standing roughly 35 metres apart, with a third noted approximately 70 metres to the south.

The more detailed picture comes from a 1934 survey by Bowman, who identified at least six standing stones within the one townland, all clustered within a diameter of about 350 yards. His recorded dimensions give a sense of how varied the group is: stone A stood over six feet tall and more than two feet wide; stone B, at nearly the same size, had already fallen recumbent; stone C barely broke the surface at around a foot and a half above ground; and stones F and G were comparatively slender slabs. Most striking is stone E, which Bowman placed atop a ring barrow, a low circular earthwork mound typically associated with prehistoric burial. A standing stone raised on or beside a barrow is not unheard of in Irish prehistory, but it suggests this particular spot carried some deliberate, layered significance for the people who shaped it.

Visitors hoping to pick their way through the group today will find the going difficult. Heavy afforestation has made much of the site inaccessible, which perhaps explains why these stones went unrecorded for so long on official maps, quietly persisting under the canopy while the wider landscape was surveyed around them.