The site was documented in 1957 by Fahy, just before the reservoir submerged it, making the excavation a kind of archaeological salvage operation conducted against the clock. What the diggers found was already partially in ruins: one of the two stones had fallen and was lying prostrate at the time of the work.

The pair were aligned along a NNE-SSW axis, a orientation common to prehistoric paired standing stones in Munster, which often appear to have been set up with deliberate astronomical or ritual intent, though no finds were recovered here to shed further light on their purpose. The upright north-eastern stone stood 2.15 metres tall, roughly 0.6 metres wide and 0.45 metres thick. Around 1.2 metres to the south-west, excavators uncovered the empty socket of the second stone, a roughly circular pit 0.75 metres across, with the fallen stone lying nearby measuring 2.15 metres in length. Together the pair spanned an overall length of approximately 2.75 metres. The absence of any associated finds is not unusual for sites of this type, where the stones themselves, and their precise placement in the landscape, were apparently the point.