What makes the site genuinely puzzling is not simply the number of stones but their arrangement, or rather the apparent lack of one. With one exception, a recognisable stone circle in Cullaun, the stones seem to follow no obvious pattern, no alignment, no enclosure, no avenue. They simply stand there, or stood, distributed across two townlands in a way that has resisted easy interpretation.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the site in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 survivors and described them as a most remarkable group. All are of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging from roughly three to six feet in height, with the larger examples averaging around five feet. By the time Geraldine Stout published the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin in 1984, the picture had worsened considerably: her map recorded 245 stones in total, of which 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, a type of ancient stone-built mound, that had also disappeared entirely. The stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, which was associated with the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that context introduces a complication that archaeologists have not fully resolved. The presence of so many standing stones within a managed nineteenth-century estate has led some to question whether all of them are genuinely ancient, or whether some may have been gathered or arranged as features of the parkland.

The site recorded as group 4E on the 1936 survey map, one cluster of 24 stones within this broader concentration, now shows no visible surface remains at all, which gives some sense of how rapidly the picture continues to change. What was carefully documented less than a century ago has, in parts, simply vanished.