Some archaeological sites survive as ruins, or as earthworks slowly dissolving into farmland. Others vanish so completely that the only evidence of their existence is a sentence or two in an old journal. The standing stone that once stood near Timolin, a small village in south County Kildare, belongs firmly to the second category. By the time it was recorded, it was already gone, removed "many years ago" according to the source, leaving behind little more than a name on a map and a note in the proceedings of the Kildare Archaeological Society.

The stone was documented by Fitzgerald in the Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society in 1906, where it was described as comparable to the standing stone at Simmonstown, a surviving prehistoric monolith in the same county. Standing stones of this kind are typically thought to date from the Bronze Age, and were erected for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain, ranging from boundary markers to ceremonial or funerary functions. The funerary possibility gains some weight here: at the base of the Timolin stone, a possible cist was discovered containing bones. A cist is a small stone-lined burial box, often associated with Bronze Age interments, and its presence alongside a standing stone is a recognised pattern elsewhere in Ireland. The bones have not been described in any surviving detail, and whether the cist was ever properly excavated is unclear from what was recorded.