Unremarkable on its own, perhaps, but it is one piece of what may be one of the largest concentrations of standing stones in Ireland, a sprawling scatter of prehistoric upright stones spread across two adjoining Tipperary townlands. When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still in place, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun. A later map, published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin by Stout in 1984, recorded 245 stones in total, of which 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, a word here meaning small stone mounds of probable prehistoric origin, which have also since disappeared.

The 1936 inspector noted that the stones, all of red sandstone or conglomerate and standing between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres high, did not appear to follow any obvious arrangement, with one exception: a clear stone circle in Cullaun, of which this particular stone was a part. That circle was formed by sixteen orthostats, the term used for the upright stones that make up such a structure, though only thirteen of the twenty in the field could be located during the recorded survey. The whole group sits within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, once the property of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that context introduces a complication. The estate setting raises genuine questions among archaeologists about whether all the stones are genuinely prehistoric or whether some may have been arranged or repositioned during the landscaping of the grounds. The ambiguity has never been fully resolved, which gives the site an added layer of strangeness: a possible prehistoric monument, a possible antiquarian folly, or some uncertain mixture of both.