Across two adjoining townlands, Timoney Hills and Cullaun, more than two hundred such stones were recorded in the 1930s, apparently arranged without any obvious pattern, aside from one stone circle in Cullaun. That sheer number, in a relatively compact area, is striking enough. What complicates things further is that the stones sit within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, a private estate, and that proximity has led some to question whether these are genuinely ancient monuments at all or, at least in part, an elaborate piece of estate landscaping.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 surviving stones, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun, and described them as a most remarkable group. He noted they stood between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres in height, made of the same red sandstone or conglomerate material throughout. A later map published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin, compiled by Stout in 1984, recorded 245 stones in total, but noted that 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns. The stone specifically catalogued as 8A, in a field containing nine orthostats, is today a low, grass-covered recumbent stone, possibly the broken remnant of what was once upright. Two others from the same group, stones 8D and 8G, could not be located at all by the time surveyors returned and were presumably removed or levelled sometime after the 1930s survey. The Hutchinson family of Timoney Park, whose 19th-century private burial ground lies just 25 metres to the north of this stone, were the estate's proprietors, and the question of how much, if anything, they or their predecessors altered this landscape remains open.