Standing stones, erected during the Bronze Age or earlier, are common enough across the Irish landscape, but pairs set so close together are less usual, and the slight divergence in their alignments adds another layer of quiet strangeness: one stone oriented roughly northwest to southeast, the other tilting just a few degrees further west of north.

When surveyors recorded the stones in the mid-1990s, they noted the southern stone at roughly 0.95 metres high and the northern at 1.4 metres, both relatively modest in scale but clearly deliberate in their placement. Whether they once formed part of a larger arrangement, marked a boundary, or served a ritual purpose that made their precise orientation meaningful is unknown. By 2004, dense vegetation had closed in around the site to the point where physical inspection was no longer possible, leaving the stones in a kind of enforced obscurity that feels almost appropriate for monuments whose original meaning was lost long before anyone thought to write it down.