They stand parallel to one another along a north-west to south-east axis, roughly 1.8 metres apart, their flat tops giving them a deliberate, architectural quality. A large displaced slab, some 2.4 metres long, leans against them on the south-west side. Running away from the stones for about eight metres towards a field fence is a low earthen bank or mound, around four metres wide and less than half a metre high, with a line of small upright stones along each of its edges. The whole arrangement is easy to miss, and easier still to misread.

A writer named Franklin, publishing in 1897, described this as an avenue of stones and interpreted the site as the remains of a cromlech, the older term for what we would now call a portal tomb or megalithic burial structure. It is a reasonable instinct; the paired uprights and flanking stones do carry that kind of atmosphere. Current thinking, however, suggests something less dramatic but no less interesting: this is more likely the entrance to a prehistoric enclosure, the low bank and stone-edged approach forming a formal threshold into a defined space. Enclosures of this kind, broadly circular or oval areas bounded by earthworks or stone, served a range of purposes in prehistoric Ireland, from agricultural to ceremonial. The site also carries an added layer of cartographic strangeness: a church placename was attached to it on the original Ordnance Survey six-inch map, but this appears to have been a draughtsman's error, the name probably belonging to a separate enclosure located roughly three kilometres to the north-north-east.