It was the clearing of rhododendron, an invasive shrub that has colonised large areas of the west of Ireland, that brought them back into view. The stones had been there all along, overlooking Ballynahinch Castle to the north-west, waiting.

The pair stand roughly a metre high and sit about 0.7 metres apart, orientated along an east-north-west to west-south-west axis. That alignment is not accidental; paired standing stones, which are found across Ireland and Britain, are often thought to have held astronomical or ceremonial significance, their orientation potentially tracking a solar or lunar event on the horizon. Local archaeologist Michael Gibbons brought the site to wider attention following the rhododendron clearance, and the monument sits within a landscape already known for prehistoric activity near Ballynahinch.