These weathered sentinels, each about 1.5 metres high and standing just 30 centimetres apart, offer commanding views across Lough Foyle and out to sea. Known simply as ‘Stones’ on the earliest Ordnance Survey maps from 1833, and later as ‘Standing Stones’, they represent the last visible remnants of what was once a much larger monument.

Historical records paint a fascinating picture of what once stood here. An 1847 Ordnance Survey revision notebook includes a sketch of the complete structure, labelled as a ‘druidical sepulchre’ locally known as ‘Dermot and Grania’s Bed’, a name that connects the site to the famous lovers from Irish mythology. The sketch reveals that these two surviving stones were originally part of a gallery tomb approximately five metres long, oriented east-northeast to west-southwest. The structure consisted of six additional stones; two forming the southern wall and four the northern, with a rounded backstone closing off the western end. The two survivors, notably taller than their lost companions, formed part of the northern wall.

By 1900, only these two stones remained visible, though in 1943 archaeologist Colhoun recorded some loose stones scattered about the site. Today, a modern roadside wall runs close by to the west, curving eastward to form an entrance to a contemporary dwelling. While the exact classification of this monument remains uncertain without more evidence, it likely represents either a court tomb or another form of gallery grave, its original purpose and full extent now lost to time but for these two enduring markers and the careful observations of 19th-century surveyors.