They do not appear on Ordnance Survey maps. That absence alone gives them a particular quality: they have been standing here, probably for several thousand years, largely unrecorded by the cartographic tradition that named and fixed almost everything else around them. One of them, the taller of the pair, carries an ogham inscription, the ancient Irish script written as a series of notches and strokes along the edge of a stone, most commonly used in early medieval Ireland to record names and lineage. The fact that this stone also bears a carved grooved circle and a downward-sloping groove on the same face suggests it may have had a longer or more layered ceremonial life than the inscription alone implies.

The taller stone stands 2.1 metres high, its sides tapering to an elongated point, and is set at the SSW end of the pair. The ogham on its ESE face was read by the scholar R.A.S. Macalister in 1945 as CATVVIRR MAQI LUGUVVEC, a formula typical of early medieval ogham stones meaning roughly "Catvvirr, son of Luguvvec". The reading is complicated by damage: a flake has spalled off just above the fourth score of the final character, leaving that portion nearly indecipherable. A grooved circle, 16 centimetres in diameter, is carved 1.6 metres up the same face, with a downward-sloping groove below it. The second stone is a broad, lower slab, 1.15 metres tall and considerably wider than the first. Packing stones are still visible around the bases of both, placed there by whoever raised them to hold each stone upright in the bog ground.