Most five-stone circles in Ireland follow a recognisable pattern, with an axial stone, a pair of portal stones marking the entrance, and flanking stones arranged around a low, flat recumbent. This example, overlooking the Blackwater valley to the north-west and rising towards Claragh Mountain to the north-east, is notable chiefly for how little of that pattern survives, and for the questions that remain unanswered.

The two standing stones are just 1.27 metres apart. The western stone, measuring roughly 1.15 metres by 0.28 metres and standing 0.7 metres high, is thought to be the axial stone, which in a five-stone circle typically lies opposite the entrance and is set flat or low to the ground. The eastern stone, slightly smaller at 0.67 metres by 0.47 metres and the same height, may have served as an entrance stone. The presumed axis between them runs NNW to SSE, which is atypical; most Cork five-stone circles are aligned closer to a SW-NE orientation. Two further slabs lie flat on the ground to the south and south-west, at distances of 1.95 metres and 1.4 metres from the uprights respectively. Whether these are displaced orthostats, meaning upright stones that have toppled or been pushed over, or whether they belong to the monument at all, is not clear. The full original arrangement is impossible to reconstruct with confidence from what remains.