By 1984, a survey of the wider area around the townlands of Timoney Hills and Cullaun had counted 245 such stones, along with five cairns, though 70 of the stones and all five cairns had already been removed by that point. What remains of stone 4N, one individual within this broader field, is now a recumbent stone lying flat on the ground, and it is not entirely clear whether it ever stood upright as a deliberate monument or whether it was always an earthfast boulder, a natural rock embedded in the soil from the outset.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area between 1934 and 1936, he counted 221 stones still in place across both townlands, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in the adjoining townland of Cullaun. His description, recorded in the Sites and Monuments Record file, noted that the stones showed no obvious arrangement or system, with the notable exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. All were of red sandstone or conglomerate, standing or having once stood between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres above the ground. That relative consistency of material and scale might suggest a shared origin, though the location of the stones on the landscaped estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family at Timoney Park introduces a complicating question: whether some or all of these stones were placed here as estate ornament rather than ancient ritual, a practice not unknown among improving landlords of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who sometimes collected or arranged megaliths for aesthetic effect.