Aligned along a NE-SW axis and spanning just under eight metres in total, they diminish unevenly as you move from one end to the other, the tallest stone at the north-east reaching 3.3 metres, with the remaining three stepping down in rough gradation to heights of 2.55, 2.35, and 2.65 metres. One of the four has been absorbed into a field fence that crosses the row at a right angle, giving the site a quietly layered quality: Bronze Age intention overlaid with nineteenth or twentieth-century agricultural pragmatism.

Stone rows of this kind are a recurring feature of the Cork and Kerry uplands, typically dated to the Bronze Age, though their precise function remains a matter of debate among archaeologists. Some alignments appear to gesture towards solar or lunar events on the horizon; others seem to cluster around natural features or water sources. What makes the Cabragh row particularly interesting is its immediate neighbourhood. A five-stone circle, a type of monument characteristic of south-west Ireland in which four low orthostats surround a recumbent axial stone, sits just six metres to the north. A probable three-stone row stands roughly 250 metres to the west. This density of related monuments within a compact area suggests that the head of this modest valley, opening eastward onto the Foherish River valley, held some sustained ceremonial or territorial significance for the communities who raised these stones.