3 metres long, stand on edge in the rock-scattered interior of a quiet oval enclosure in County Limerick. They are set parallel to one another, roughly 0.6 metres apart, and the survey notes compiled by Denis Power are careful to observe that their positioning appears deliberate. That small word, deliberate, carries a lot of weight out here on a south-facing slope in Aughalin. Nobody recorded what they were for, and no obvious parallel structure explains them. They simply sit among the natural outcrops, waiting for a question nobody has yet answered.

The enclosure itself is oval, measuring approximately 51 metres on its northwest to southeast axis and 40 metres across the other way, defined by an earthen bank that stands noticeably higher on its outer face, around 0.85 metres, than on the interior side, where it rises only about 0.25 metres. Along the northern and eastern stretches, the bank is accompanied by an external fosse, a shallow ditch that in enclosure archaeology typically marks a boundary with some degree of intended formality. Stone facing is still visible on the outer face of the bank at the northeast, suggesting a more deliberate construction than the overgrown earthwork now implies. What complicates any tidy interpretation is that the material making up the enclosing bank appears virtually identical to the ordinary field boundaries that press up against it from the north, west, southwest and southeast. It is possible the enclosure was absorbed into a later field system, or that the field system grew out of it entirely. The 1841 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the whole area covered by trees, which means the landscape visible today, open pasture, rock outcrops, grassy bank, is itself a relatively recent arrangement.

The site sits in rough pasture and there is no formal access or interpretive signage. The bank is heavily overgrown, though a gap of about two metres is apparent at the east-southeast, which likely marks the original entrance. The stone facing at the northeast is worth looking for if you can get close to the outer face of the bank. The two upright slabs are in the southeast quadrant of the interior, among the rock outcrops, and their parallel arrangement becomes clearer once you are standing directly over them rather than approaching from a distance.