This modest stone grouping has puzzled archaeologists for decades, with early researchers like Colhoun in 1949 describing it as a ‘multiple-chambered cairn’, whilst Killanin and Duignan later classified it as a ‘chamber tomb’ in the 1960s. However, modern archaeological surveys suggest these interpretations may have been overly ambitious; what remains today appears to be simply three standing stones, though their original purpose remains intriguingly uncertain.

The stones are arranged in a distinctive pattern that hints at deliberate placement rather than random positioning. Two of the stones form a north-south alignment, with the southern stone measuring one metre in height and 65 centimetres in width. Its northern companion stands slightly taller at 1.4 metres high and 70 centimetres wide. The third stone breaks from this linear arrangement, positioned 4.35 metres to the east-northeast of the aligned pair, creating an asymmetrical grouping that may have held ritual or astronomical significance for the people who erected them.

Whether these stones once formed part of a larger megalithic structure that has since been dismantled, or whether they’ve always stood as we see them today, remains a matter of speculation. The site was formally documented in the Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland in 2002, compiled by Eamon Cody, though by then archaeologist Lacy had already noted in 1983 that the features were best described simply as standing stones rather than any form of tomb or cairn. Their weathered surfaces and steadfast presence continue to mark this hillside location, silent witnesses to millennia of Donegal’s changing landscape.