What makes the site genuinely puzzling is not the number of stones but their arrangement, or rather the lack of one. With the exception of a single stone circle in Cullaun, the stones appear to follow no discernible pattern, no avenue, no alignment, no obvious astronomical orientation. The particular stone recorded here, a rectangular slab of modest dimensions, less than a metre tall and oriented east to west along its long axis, is just one of 35 identified within a single field.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area between 1934 and 1936, he counted 221 stones still standing, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun, and described them as a most remarkable group. They are all of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging in height from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres, with the larger examples averaging around 1.5 metres. A later survey published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin by Stout in 1984 mapped 245 stones in total, noting that 70 had by then been removed, along with five cairns, a type of prehistoric stone mound, that had also disappeared from the landscape. The loss of so many features over time makes it harder still to read whatever logic may once have governed the whole.

There is, however, a complicating question hanging over the site. The stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, associated with the Parker-Hutchinson family, and their presence on a designed landscape has led some to question whether they are genuinely ancient monuments or were arranged, or rearranged, during the estate's development. That uncertainty has never been fully resolved, which gives the site an additional layer of strangeness: a field full of stones that may be prehistoric, may be theatrical, and are possibly both.