No surface trace remains where it was recorded standing. That absence is, in its own way, as interesting as the stones that survive.

The Timoney Hills complex spans two adjoining townlands, Timoney Hills and Cullaun, and the scale of what once existed here is genuinely difficult to account for. When the Inspector of National Monuments recorded the site between 1934 and 1936, he counted 221 stones still in place, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun, all of red sandstone or conglomerate, standing between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres above ground. He noted that the stones did not appear to follow any particular arrangement, with the exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. A later survey published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin mapped as many as 245 stones in total, along with five cairns, and recorded that 70 of the stones and all five cairns had by then been removed. The attrition, in other words, had been going on for some time before anyone thought to count what remained. What complicates the picture further is that these stones sit within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that context has led some researchers to question whether the monuments are genuinely prehistoric or whether at least some of them were arranged or introduced during the ornamental landscaping of the estate. The question has not been definitively resolved, and it gives the whole site an ambiguity that a more straightforward megalithic monument would lack.