The arrangement is not dramatic in scale, but it is deliberate: the stones are set contiguous in a north-west to south-east line, packed in place, and oriented with a consistency that rules out accident.

As described by Stefan Bergh in his 1995 survey of the megalithic landscape of this part of Sligo, only two of the six boulders are still standing upright. The remaining four have shifted to a recumbent position, lying on their edges with their long sides running parallel to the ground. Each boulder measures roughly 1.1 by 0.8 metres, rising to about 0.7 metres above ground. The stone itself is gneiss, a coarse-grained metamorphic rock common to the region, and the boulders were carefully set in a stone packing, suggesting the builders took some trouble to stabilise the alignment. Stone rows, broadly speaking, are a class of prehistoric monument found across Atlantic Europe and Ireland, and while their precise function is debated, their consistent orientation and proximity to other funerary or ceremonial features, as here with the nearby cairn, suggest they were part of a wider ritual landscape rather than isolated curiosities. The relationship between this row and the main cairn thirty metres to the south-east is almost certainly intentional, though exactly what that relationship meant to the people who built it remains open.