What makes the site genuinely puzzling, beyond its sheer scale, is that the stones appear to follow no obvious pattern. With one exception, a stone circle in Cullaun, they do not align, do not cluster into recognisable formations, and do not conform to the kind of ceremonial geometry archaeologists have come to expect from prehistoric monuments. They simply stand, or stood, across the landscape in apparent disorder.

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, and described the group as "a most remarkable" assembly. All were of red sandstone or conglomerate, standing between roughly three and six feet above ground, with the taller examples averaging around five feet. A later map published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin recorded 245 stones in total, suggesting that by the time of that survey 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, a cairn being a deliberately constructed mound of stones, often associated with burial. The particular stone recorded here as 5R on the 1934 to 1936 map has since disappeared entirely, with no surface trace remaining. That ongoing loss points to a wider vulnerability across the site. There is also a complicating question that hangs over all of it: because the stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, the former property of the Parker-Hutchinson family, their true antiquity has never been firmly established. The possibility that some or all were arranged as estate ornamentation rather than prehistoric ritual cannot be ruled out, and that uncertainty gives the whole field an quietly unsettled character that no amount of counting or mapping has resolved.