What makes this particular stone unusual, beyond the sheer density of the group it belongs to, is a question that has lingered since the monuments were formally surveyed in the 1930s: whether they are genuinely prehistoric at all, or whether some, or many, were arranged or re-erected as landscape features on a private estate.

When the Inspector of National Monuments recorded the group between 1934 and 1936, he counted 221 stones still standing or lying prostrate, noting that 173 fell within the townland of Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun. He described them as a most remarkable group, all of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres in height, with no obvious arrangement except for one stone circle in Cullaun. By the time Geraldine Stout's Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin was published in 1984, the picture had become more complicated: the total count had risen to 245 stones, but 70 had been removed, along with five cairns. The stone singled out here stands 1.3 metres high, is roughly square in section, and sits without any packing stones visible around its base, the kind of detail that, to an archaeologist, can hint at whether a stone was planted in antiquity or repositioned more recently. The fact that these stones sit within the landscaped grounds of the Parker-Hutchinson estate at Timoney Park has cast genuine doubt over how many of them belong to a prehistoric arrangement and how many owe their current positions to later, more deliberate, aesthetic choices.