Nothing of either survives above ground today. What makes their absence more interesting than their presence is what they may once have signified: these were likely wayside cairns, small accumulations of stone built up over time by travellers passing along a particular route, each person adding a stone as an act of ritual or remembrance.

The road to Salrock appears to have carried more than ordinary traffic. Four other possible wayside cairns are recorded along the same stretch, suggesting this was a route with deliberate spiritual significance. Salrock itself contains ecclesiastical remains, and the cairns along the way may have served as penitential stations, where travellers paused to pray as part of a formal devotional journey, or as coffin-halts, the points where a funeral procession would rest the coffin and offer prayers before continuing to a place of burial or blessing. Both functions were common features of Irish rural religious life, particularly in areas with ancient pilgrimage traditions. The clustering of six possible cairns along a single road implies the route to Salrock held considerable importance, though the exact nature of whatever devotional practice they served has not survived in any detailed record.

The first edition OS six-inch maps, surveyed across Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, recorded a landscape that was already centuries in the making, and features like these cairns were sometimes caught just before they disappeared entirely. By the time Paul Gosling compiled the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway in 1993, nothing remained to be seen on the ground. The road still runs from Tully toward Salrock, but the stones that once marked its sacred rhythm are long gone.