The stone recorded here is a single sloping rectangle of red sandstone, 1.45 metres tall and orientated roughly north to south, one of dozens still standing in this corner of the estate. What makes the whole assembly strange is not any one stone but the sheer number of them, spread without obvious geometry across two adjoining townlands.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area between 1934 and 1936, he counted 221 stones still in place, 173 in the townland of Timoney Hills and a further 48 in neighbouring Cullaun. He noted that they appeared to follow no particular arrangement, with the exception of one stone circle in Cullaun, and that all were of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres in height. A later map published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin in 1984 recorded 245 stones in total, of which 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, a word used for deliberate mounds of stone, which had also disappeared by that point. The total, even reduced, remains striking. The complication is the setting itself: the stones sit within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that context has led some to question whether the monuments are genuinely prehistoric or were arranged, or rearranged, as a romantic feature of an improved eighteenth or nineteenth century demesne. No firm conclusion has been established either way, which leaves the visitor in the unusual position of standing before something that might be several thousand years old, or might be rather less than that.