The stones at Timoney Hills and the adjoining townland of Cullaun form one of the largest concentrations of standing stones in Ireland, yet unlike the great ceremonial monuments at Avebury or Callanish, they appear to follow no obvious arrangement. There is no grand alignment, no evident astronomical logic. One stone circle has been identified in Cullaun, but the rest simply stand, or once stood, scattered across the ground in a pattern that has puzzled everyone who has looked closely at them.

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 them as a most remarkable group. They are all of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres in height, suggesting a shared source and perhaps a shared purpose, though what that purpose was remains open. A later survey published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin, compiled by Stout in 1984, mapped 245 stones in total, of which 70 had by then been removed, along with five cairns, all now gone. The particular stone recorded here, marked as 3N on the 1930s survey map, now lies recumbent, a flat slab half-buried in scrub, which may represent the collapsed remnant of the original upright. There is, however, a complicating layer to all of this. The stones sit within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that setting has led some researchers to question whether the monuments are genuinely prehistoric or whether they may have been arranged, or rearranged, as a form of estate ornamentation. The question has not been definitively settled.