They are gone now, broken up with sledge-hammers around 1920, and what survives is mostly inference: the bases recorded in unpublished museum files, two sandstone fragments recovered from the margins of a nearby quarry in the early 1990s, and a third stone still standing roughly 30 metres to the north-east across the county boundary in Kiltullagh townland, Roscommon. That surviving stone sits on top of a low mound and is thought to have been part of the same alignment. The three would have formed a line across the county boundary, which of course meant nothing when they were erected.

Geochemical analysis of the two recovered fragments, each just under a metre in length, found that both are carboniferous sandstone but come from different geological sources, one matching the Roscommon stone and one from somewhere else entirely. This suggests the builders of the alignment were sourcing their materials deliberately and from more than one location, a detail that sits oddly against the apparent simplicity of the monuments. The stones may have stood on a natural rise, remnants of which were still visible at the quarry edge when archaeologists investigated in the early 1990s. That quarry, 25 to 30 metres in diameter and three metres deep, had also yielded fragmentary human bones in 1991, dated to somewhere between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, which researchers Cribin et al. interpreted in 1994 as possible burials or ritual deposits connected to the stones. The surviving Roscommon stone has its own associated burials, both inhumed and cremated, along with a ringbarrow, a low circular earthwork used for burial, immediately adjacent to it. The inhumations there may belong to the early medieval period. Within 300 metres of the site, there is also a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, and the remains of a medieval church, suggesting this elevated borderland continued to draw human activity across many centuries.