They are set 22.4 metres apart along a northeast to southwest axis, and the larger of the pair, at the southwest end, reaches 3.65 metres in height, tapering along one edge from a base of 1.45 metres wide to just 0.5 metres at the top. From here, the site looks out over Portmagee Channel to the northwest, and the alignment of the stones, along with two low boulders sitting a few metres to the southwest sharing the same axis, suggests something deliberate in their placement, even if what exactly was intended remains unclear.

The larger stone attracted particular scholarly attention in the twentieth century because of a theory put forward by R. A. S. Macalister, one of Ireland's most influential early archaeologists, that it bore an ogham inscription. Ogham is an early medieval script, found mainly in Ireland and western Britain, in which letters are represented by notches and strokes cut along the edge of a stone. Macalister later withdrew the suggestion in his 1945 corpus of ogham inscriptions, leaving the stone in an ambiguous category: examined closely enough to raise the question, but not closely enough, apparently, to settle it. The two accompanying boulders, low and relatively unremarkable in themselves, share the same northeast to southwest orientation, which may indicate that they were part of the same original arrangement rather than incidental features of the landscape.