Both are quartzite, a hard crystalline rock that would have required considerable effort to source and position, and they are set roughly 1.2 metres apart along a northwest-to-southeast alignment, a orientating principle that recurs across prehistoric monuments throughout Ireland and Atlantic Europe. Together they span an overall length of 3.6 metres, and both stones are of broadly similar dimensions, the northwest stone standing 1.4 metres high and its companion to the southeast reaching 1.3 metres.

What makes the pair particularly interesting is where they stand. Rather than being planted directly into the ground of the surrounding pasture, both stones sit on top of and at the centre of a low earthen mound, roughly 15 metres in diameter and about half a metre high. This kind of sub-circular mound beneath a standing stone or stone pair is not unheard of in the Irish prehistoric landscape, and its presence here raises the usual cluster of questions that such sites tend to generate, whether the mound was already ancient when the stones were raised, whether both features were created together as part of a single monument, or whether the stones were later additions to something older. The site was catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1988, whose surveys of Cork's standing stones remain a key reference for understanding how these monuments are distributed across the county. The stones sit in level pasture on the shoulder of a gently south-facing slope, a setting that feels functional rather than theatrical, chosen perhaps for visibility across the surrounding land rather than for any dramatic elevation.