That orientation is not accidental. Paired standing stones of this kind are a recurring feature of the West Cork landscape, and their consistent alignment along a northeast to southwest axis has long suggested a deliberate relationship with the movement of the sun or moon across the horizon, though precisely what ritual or practical purpose they served remains a matter of debate among archaeologists.

The stones themselves are modest in scale. The northeastern stone stands roughly 0.65 metres high, while its partner to the southwest is the taller of the two at 1.2 metres. They sit on a small natural rise about 180 metres north of the Durrus river, a placement that would have given the site a degree of visibility in the surrounding landscape without requiring any dramatic elevation. The pair is catalogued in the work of Seán Ó Nualláin, whose 1988 survey remains a foundational reference for standing stone monuments in Munster, and is further noted by Roberts in the same year. West Cork has an unusually dense concentration of these prehistoric monuments, many of them in the form of stone rows and pairs rather than the more familiar stone circles found elsewhere in Ireland, suggesting the region had its own distinct traditions of monument-building during the Bronze Age.