The stones sit within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the former estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that setting is precisely what gives archaeologists pause. A prehistoric field of standing stones is unusual enough; one that happens to coincide so neatly with a 19th-century ornamental estate is unusual in a rather different way.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still in place, 173 in the townland of Timoney Hills and 48 in the adjoining townland of Cullaun. His description of them as "a most remarkable group" was measured but clear-eyed; he noted that the stones show no obvious arrangement or system, with the single exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. All are of red sandstone or conglomerate, and they range from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres above ground. A later map, published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin by Stout in 1984, recorded 245 stones in total, of which 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, a term for a mound of stones sometimes associated with burial or ritual use, which have also since disappeared. The individual stone documented here, recorded as stone 6K on the survey map, is rectangular in plan, orientated east to west along its long axis, and stands 1.18 metres high. It is one of 35 stones identified within this particular field alone.

What no survey has been able to settle is whether these stones were raised in prehistory or assembled as a feature of the estate landscape, possibly in the 18th or 19th century, when landowners across Ireland and Britain sometimes arranged stones in deliberate imitation of antiquity. The materials are consistent across the group, which might argue for a single episode of construction, ancient or otherwise. For now, the Timoney Hills stones occupy an ambiguous position: protected as National Monument No. 353, admired as a concentration without obvious parallel, and still, after nearly a century of scrutiny, not entirely explained.