That sheer number is what sets the place apart. Stone rows and lone standing stones are common enough across Ireland, but an apparently unsystematic scatter of this density is genuinely unusual, and the Inspector of National Monuments, surveying the group in 1936, called the remainder, even after losses, "a most remarkable group". Notably, the stones show no obvious arrangement or alignment, with the single exception of one stone circle identified in Cullaun.

When the Inspector carried out his survey in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still standing or lying prostrate across both townlands, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun. By the time Stout's Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin was published in 1984, the tally had grown to 245 on paper, but 70 of those had already been removed, along with five cairns, which are low mounds of piled stone sometimes associated with burials or territorial markers. The losses matter here because the entire group sits within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, historically the property of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that setting has led some researchers to question whether the stones are genuinely prehistoric or whether they were arranged, moved, or augmented during the estate's development. The question remains open. The stone recorded here as 4Q on the 1936 map is now recumbent, and it is unclear whether it is a collapsed standing stone or simply an earthfast boulder that was never upright at all.