They are labelled simply "Monuments", with no further explanation. By the time the same area was mapped again in 1920, the label had already changed to "Monuments (Site of)", which is its own quiet kind of admission: within the span of a single surveying generation, whatever stood there had already disappeared, and the cartographers could only mark an absence.

Nothing is now visible on the ground, and the purpose of the three features remains genuinely unknown. One possibility raised is that they were penitential cairns, which were small mounds or heaps of stone built up by pilgrims as acts of devotion, often as part of a pattern of religious observance centred on a local holy well or sacred site. That interpretation would fit the landscape here: the Loughkeeran holy well sits immediately to the west, a church lies roughly 400 metres to the east-northeast, and a rath, an enclosed early medieval farmstead typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, stands about 170 metres to the south. It is a corner of the countryside layered with early Christian and pre-Christian activity, and whatever the three uprights were, they occupied a meaningful position within it. The shift from "Monuments" to "Monuments (Site of)" between those two map editions is a small, telling detail: something was recognised, named, and then lost, all within living memory of the first survey.