Sitting oddly in a dip on a hilltop overlooking Lough Salt these stones are a bit of an oddity. At first glance there seems to be three stones, the tallest of which is around 1.2m high. The next down in size is just under 1m tall. The smallest hardly breaks ground level, but on closer inspection it is not what it seems. Someone has dug a small hole around this stone, which reveals a smaller stone next to it, the two stones forming a V on the axis of the alignment (which is N-S with the tallest stone at the south.) I think these two stones formed a socket for the third stone (now missing) to stand in.
The surrounding higher ground blocks the views to the northeast and directly west, but the lough to the east is visible as is the low lying land and Lough Greenan some 120m below to the southwest. On the other side of Lough Salt the origianlly named Loughsalt Mountain rises up vertically in a most spectacular manner. To the north east there is a very beautiful little lough called Lough Reelan, which if in Wales or Cumbria would be called 'cwm', but are probably called by the more mundane name of 'kettle lake' here (I am not big on Irish geographical terms as you can tell!) Both Lough Reelan and Lough Salt are quite high up and were formed during the last ice age.
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