Together they span just 2.4 metres in overall length, aligned roughly ENE to WSW, and stand only 0.7 metres apart. Small, unassuming, easy to walk past.

Paired standing stones of this kind are a recognised monument type in Cork and Kerry, and they are generally understood to date from the Bronze Age, though pinning a precise period to any individual pair is rarely straightforward without excavation. The two stones at Ballyvongane were catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1988, in his systematic survey of stone pairs across Munster. The south-west stone is the taller of the two, standing 1.7 metres high, 0.9 metres long and 0.75 metres thick. The north-east stone, were it still upright, would reach approximately 1.4 metres; as it is, it rests at an angle against the other. Both stones sit at the south-western edge of a field clearance mound, which is simply an accumulated heap of stones removed from the surrounding land during agricultural use over generations, and their proximity to it raises the familiar question of whether later farming activity disturbed the original ground around them, or whether the mound grew up beside monuments that were already ancient.