Unlike the tidily arranged megalithic monuments most visitors expect, these stones follow no obvious pattern. With one exception, a discernible stone circle in Cullaun, they appear to have been placed without any particular system, which makes the group both genuinely puzzling and, for those who like their prehistory neat, quietly unsatisfying.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still upright or fallen across the two townlands, noting that the group had already been considerably reduced from its original extent. A later survey, published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin by Stout in 1984, mapped as many as 245 stones, of which 70 had by then been removed, along with five cairns that have since disappeared entirely. The stones themselves, mostly between 0.9 and 1.8 metres in height, are described as all of the same geological period, a detail that might suggest a coherent original plan, even if that plan remains opaque. There is, however, a significant complication. The stones sit on what was the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, the property of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and their location within a designed landscape has led some to question whether the arrangement is genuinely prehistoric or, at least in part, the product of later estate improvement. The particular stone recorded here now lies recumbent, measuring 1.35 metres long, with no packing stones visible around its base to indicate where or how it once stood.