Nine stones, none taller than 0.8 metres, enclose an area roughly 6 metres in diameter. A further two stones stand about 10.97 metres to the west, set 2 metres apart. The most southerly stone leans at a pronounced angle, and the whole ensemble has the look of something partially dismantled, or perhaps never quite finished, and left to be slowly reclaimed by the hillside.

The difficulty in reading the site is not new. When P. J. Hartnett examined it in 1939, he found a third stone lying fallen, its base still resting in its original socket, along with what appeared to be the empty sockets of stones long since removed. Together these suggested a western circle of around 16 feet in diameter. Hartnett also consulted the Ordnance Survey Name Books, which described the site as consisting of two stone circles, with roughly 20 stones in the western circle, counting both those forming the ring and those positioned inside it, and 9 in the eastern one, again with some stones interior to the circle. The Name Books were compiled in the nineteenth century, which means the site was already being read as a pair of circles before modern archaeological fieldwork began, and that some stones visible then have since disappeared. Seán Ó Nualláin, reviewing the site in 1984, arrived at a diplomatically cautious conclusion: "the precise nature of these features is uncertain." That uncertainty has not been resolved since, and the site carries the label "anomalous" in the county inventory rather than being assigned to any recognised monument type. Stone circles, as a category, are well attested across Cork and Kerry, typically dating to the Bronze Age, but this grouping, with its ambiguous layout and missing stones, sits awkwardly at the edges of that classification.