The description that accompanied the name was even more arresting. When the archaeologist Seán P. Ó Ríordáin visited in 1940, he recorded a local account of the stones as resembling "a gate leading into nothing." That phrase alone has the quality of something worth seeking out, yet the reality of the site turns out to be considerably more complicated than a pair of ancient standing stones framing an eerie threshold.

Ó Ríordáin found, on examination, that the two pillars stood beside what appeared to be an old road, by then reduced to a water-worn channel cutting across the hillside. Along its lower edge ran a line of stones set upright, forming a rough fence that gave the whole arrangement a faintly megalithic air. The Geata Báin stones were simply the tallest and most conspicuous of these. Enquiries locally told a more prosaic story: the road had been in active use roughly ninety years before his visit, constructed to allow turf to be hauled down from the mountain top. Ó Ríordáin reasoned that if the road were genuinely ancient, it would have been too deeply eroded to function as a working track by the nineteenth century, which effectively settled the question of its age. He noted that similar turf-drawing paths climbed Slieve Reagh from other directions. A separate thread of local lore, recorded by Thomas Johnson Westropp in 1918, placed "Dodera's grave" somewhere near the peak, with a suggestion that the two stones of Geata Báin might mark it, though this connection remains speculative. Eoin Grogan listed the pair in 1989 as a possible stone pair, catalogued as "Cush 1."

The site sits in rough pasture at the edge of a conifer plantation, roughly 335 metres east of a larger archaeological complex at Cush. No remains are visible on recent satellite imagery, which means a visit requires some tolerance for uncertainty; you may be looking at the stones, or at the remnant fence line, or at nothing much at all. The broader Cush complex nearby, which includes ring forts and other earthworks, gives useful orientation and context for anyone approaching on foot across the hill ground.