More than two hundred stones of red sandstone and conglomerate occupy two adjoining townlands, Timoney Hills and Cullaun, yet their origin remains genuinely unresolved. The particular stone recorded here, a rectangular slab measuring 0.85 metres high, 0.45 metres wide, and just 0.19 metres thick, orientated on a NNW-SSE axis, sits in pasture on the grounds of the Parker-Hutchinson estate of Timoney Park. That last detail matters. The landscaped estate setting has led archaeologists to question whether these monuments are prehistoric at all, or whether they were arranged, augmented, or simply invented as romantic features of a managed demesne landscape.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still standing or lying prostrate across the two townlands, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun. His description was candid: the stones appear to follow no particular system of arrangement, with the exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. All are of the same red sandstone or conglomerate material, standing or having stood between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres above ground. By the time Geraldine Stout published the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin in 1984, the total recorded had risen to 245, though 70 had by then been removed, along with five cairns that had also disappeared. Five stones in this particular field were already recorded as lying flat on the 1936 map. The stone described here has no packing stones visible around its base, a detail that would normally help confirm deliberate prehistoric erection, and a second stone stands approximately five metres to the south-west.