But paired standing stones are among the more quietly puzzling monuments in the Irish prehistoric landscape, and this example at Glantane in mid Cork carries the careful arithmetic of deliberate placement. The two uprights are aligned on a northeast-southwest axis, a orientation shared by many such pairs across Munster and often linked, in scholarly discussion, to solar or lunar events, though no firm ritual explanation has ever been settled upon. Together they span an overall length of three metres; the smaller, northeastern stone reaches about a metre in height, while its southwestern companion stands a little taller at around 1.3 metres and is noticeably broader.

The site was catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1988, as part of his systematic survey of standing stones across Ireland, and the measurements he recorded remain the clearest description of what survives. What gives the Glantane pair additional interest is its proximity to another monument entirely: a radial-stone enclosure sits roughly a hundred metres to the northeast. Radial-stone enclosures are a distinctly Cork and Kerry phenomenon, consisting of a circular arrangement of stones set with their long axes pointing inward toward the centre, like spokes of a wheel laid flat. Whether the pair and the enclosure were conceived together, or simply accumulated in the same patch of ground across different generations, is not known, but the clustering of monument types in a single field is a pattern that appears repeatedly across the Cork uplands.