The sheer number of them is arresting. By the mid-twentieth century, 221 stones had been counted across two adjoining townlands, Timoney Hills and Cullaun, and an earlier survey had identified as many as 245, of which 70 had already been removed along with five cairns. For a prehistoric monument type usually encountered alone or in small ceremonial groupings, this density is difficult to account for.

When the Inspector of National Monuments recorded the group between 1934 and 1936, he noted that the stones, all of red sandstone or conglomerate, stood or had stood between roughly three and six feet in height, with the larger ones averaging around five feet. He described them as a most remarkable group, while also observing that they did not appear to follow any obvious arrangement, with the exception of one stone circle in the Cullaun townland. That absence of discernible pattern is part of what makes the site so difficult to interpret. A straightforward prehistoric monument field tends to have some internal logic, whether astronomical, processional, or territorial. Here, the logic, if there was one, has not yet been satisfactorily explained. Adding a further layer of uncertainty, the stones sit within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the former estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family. That setting has led some to question whether the monuments are genuinely ancient or whether the estate's history of deliberate landscaping has complicated, or even partly created, what visitors now see.

The particular stone recorded as 5Q on the 1934 to 1936 survey map has since left no visible trace on the surface. It is a detail that quietly encapsulates the wider story of the site: a monument counted, mapped, designated as National Monument No. 353, and then simply gone, leaving behind only the paperwork and the question of what, exactly, was ever there.