But these two stones at Glanbrack are something more deliberate: a pair set roughly six and a half metres apart, oriented along a northeast to southwest axis, and positioned in close relation to a five-stone circle that stands just three and a half metres to the northeast of the larger of the two. Five-stone circles are a monument type particular to the Cork and Kerry region, consisting of four upright stones arranged in a arc with a single recumbent, or axial, stone laid flat between the two tallest uprights. The proximity of this standing stone pair to such a circle suggests the whole arrangement was conceived as a related complex rather than a series of unconnected incidents in the landscape.

The two stones are modest in scale. The first rises to about one metre and measures roughly seventy centimetres by thirty centimetres at its base; the second, six and a half metres to the west, is slightly lower at ninety-five centimetres but somewhat broader. They sit on pasture land just south of a ridge crest that divides two river valleys, the Glashagloragh running to the north and the Argideen to the south. That positioning between two watersheds feels unlikely to be coincidental in a prehistoric context, though what it meant to the people who placed these stones there is not something the ground gives up easily. The site was catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1984, as part of his systematic work on Cork and Kerry stone circles and associated monuments.