What once stood here was a genuinely unusual prehistoric arrangement: not a single upright stone but a group of at least five, spread across a field in Mid Cork, all of them now gone. Their removal makes the site a kind of negative monument, known only through maps and a century-old description, sitting in the landscape as an invisible companion to a stone row and a stone circle that survive nearby.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded three of the stones, each labelled individually as a gallaun, the Irish term for a single standing stone, spaced roughly 40 to 45 metres apart in a rough north-south line. The southernmost of the three had already disappeared by the time later editions of the same map were produced. Writing in 1918, a researcher named Conlon documented five stones in total. Three of them, which he labelled A, B, and C, were arranged not in a line but at the corners of an equilateral triangle, approximately 58 yards between each apex. Stone A stood just over seven feet tall; B was six feet; C, five feet. Two further stones, D and E, stood roughly 150 yards to the south, only about two feet three inches apart from each other, with E barely clearing the ground at one foot five inches. The geometry implied by this layout, a triangle combined with a close-set southern pair, is unusual even within the already puzzling tradition of prehistoric stone arrangements in Cork, a county that contains a high concentration of stone rows and circles of Bronze Age date. Whatever the relationship between these stones and the nearby circle and row, the whole complex was evidently a significant focal point in the ancient landscape of the area.