Paired standing stones of this kind were almost certainly erected upright, probably during the Bronze Age, and the socket hole still faintly visible at the north-western end of the eastern stone confirms that it once stood in the ground. That stone was knocked over around 1976, living memory rather than remote antiquity, which gives the site an odd quality; this is not slow geological subsidence or the gradual pressure of centuries, but a deliberate act within recent decades.

The two stones are substantial. The eastern one, now prostrate, measures 3.1 metres in length, 0.85 metres across, and 0.4 metres thick. Its companion lies just 1.35 metres further west and is even larger at 3.8 metres by 1.2 metres by 0.5 metres. When upright, the pair would have been a conspicuous presence on this gentle hillside. The site does not stand alone in the landscape; about 350 metres to the south-west lies a wedge tomb and a possible further megalithic tomb, a wedge tomb being a type of Neolithic or early Bronze Age communal burial monument typically built from large flat slabs arranged in a tapering chamber. That clustering of monuments suggests the area held some ritual or territorial significance across a long stretch of prehistoric time. The site was noted by Grove White in his survey of Cork antiquities compiled between 1905 and 1925, and later catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1988, so it has been on the archaeological record for over a century, even as one of its principal features was being toppled.

The stones lie in pasture on a working farm, and two loose boulders along with some scattered field stones sit nearby on the site. The socket hole at the north-western end of the downed eastern stone is worth looking for as a quiet piece of evidence, a negative impression of the monument as it once was.