That kind of folk belief, attaching itself to a megalithic structure that predates it by millennia, is not unusual in Ireland, but it is rarely so physically specific. The hole is there; the cure was real, to those who used it.

The alignment consists of four upright limestone orthostats, the term used for large, individually placed standing stones, arranged along a northeast to southwest axis and stretching just over seven and a half metres in total. A possible fifth stone, measuring 1.3 metres in height, lies prostrate near a gap in the row, suggesting either a collapse or some disturbance at an unknown point. The stones sit in a slight hollow at the base of a small hillock, with little evidence of the packing-stones that are sometimes found stabilising such monuments at their bases. The tallest upright, at 1.78 metres, anchors the south-western end, while the remaining three diminish irregularly toward the north-east. When the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was published in 1840, the site was marked simply as "Three Stones", suggesting that one or more of the current uprights was not then visible above ground, or was not counted. By the time the revised edition appeared in 1902, the site had disappeared from the map altogether, a quiet erasure that is not uncommon for monuments in marginal upland areas where agricultural interest is low but official attention lower still.