That ambiguity is part of what makes the Timoney Hills group so quietly unsettling. This particular stone, rectangular in section and oriented east to west, measures 1.7 metres high, 0.8 metres wide, and just 0.25 metres thick, one of dozens still standing in a field that once held considerably more.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 survivors across the two adjoining townlands of Timoney Hills and Cullaun, noting that 173 stood in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun. His description was candid: the stones appeared to follow no particular system, with the single exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. All were of red sandstone or conglomerate, standing between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres above ground. A later survey published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin (Stout, 1984) mapped 245 stones in total, indicating that 70 had by then been removed, along with five cairns, a cairn being a mound of stones sometimes associated with burial or ritual use. That erosion of the group has continued over time, making the surviving stones all the more significant as a record of whatever this landscape once contained. There is, however, a complication: the stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, the former Parker-Hutchinson estate, and that setting has led some researchers to question whether these are genuinely ancient prehistoric monuments or whether they may have been arranged, augmented, or repositioned during the landscaping of the estate grounds. The question has not been definitively resolved, which gives the whole place an additional layer of strangeness, a field full of stones that may or may not be what they appear.