They are not the tall, dramatic pillars that tend to draw visitors to prehistoric sites; the taller of the two reaches only about 0.71 metres above the bog surface. What makes them worth attention is precisely that modesty, and the question it raises: why here, and why two?

The pair are aligned on a northeast-to-southwest axis, a orientation shared by many prehistoric standing stones across Ireland and often associated, though not conclusively, with solar or lunar alignments. The stones sit roughly 1.25 metres apart, one slightly larger and more rectangular in plan than the other. Around them, the bog preserves what are described as relict field boundaries, the ghost outlines of a farmed landscape that was probably already old when the bog began to form over it. This is a common situation in the Irish midlands and west, where blanket bog has slowly swallowed field systems, walls, and monuments that were in use during the Bronze Age or earlier. The bog, in other words, is not the original context but an accretion, a slow burial that has incidentally preserved what lies beneath and around the stones.