[3][4] Although not an especially significant example, Drombeg is one of the most visited megalithic sites in Ireland, and is protected under the National Monuments Act.

[6] This arrangement creates a south-west axis, and orients the monument in the direction of the setting sun during the midwinter solstice.

[7][2][5] Terence Meaden suggests that a petroglyph, on the northern side of one stone, is of an erect phallus with two testicles, about 200 millimetres (7.9 in) long.

[8] Near the stone circle, approximately 40m to the west, are two round stone-walled prehistoric huts and a fulacht fiadh.

An inverted pot, found in the centre of the circle, contained the cremated remains of a young adolescent wrapped with thick cloth.