A prehistoric stone row, a type of monument in which upright stones are arranged in a deliberate linear formation, once had three orthostats at Dromteewakeen. By the time anyone looked closely, one had already been knocked flat by land reclamation machinery in 1989. What remains of the row occupies reclaimed bogland just 75 metres south of the Caragh river, enclosed on most sides by high mountains, with the valley opening only to the west. The setting feels purposeful; it is the kind of enclosed mountain floor that seems designed to hold something still.

The two surviving uprights stand in an ENE-WSW alignment, roughly 2.25 metres apart. The taller of the pair, at the north-eastern end, reaches 2.27 metres and has a trapezoidal base; the second tapers to a flat top at 1.88 metres. The third stone, the one since levelled, was considerably smaller, only about 0.4 metres high, and stood a further 1.2 metres to the south-west. Researcher Lynch concluded in 1981 that the row's orientation was aligned on the rising sun at the summer solstice, placing it in a broader Kerry tradition of Bronze Age monuments arranged with solar events in mind. About 24 metres to the north-east there had also been a possible boulder-burial, a form of prehistoric funerary monument in which a large capstone rests on smaller supporting stones; it measured roughly 1.6 metres by 1.35 metres before the same deep-ploughing that disturbed the row destroyed it entirely in 1989, leaving no surface trace.

The 1989 disturbance prompted a small excavation led by Sheehan, which investigated the socket of the felled stone and the ground around the two standing uprights. A shallow pit and several stake-holes were found near the taller orthostat, though whether these features belonged to the original monument or to some later activity was not established. The excavation of the boulder-burial site produced neither finds nor identifiable features. What the ground gave up, in the end, was very little; the more consequential losses had already happened above the surface.