It was catalogued in the 1930s, given a designation on a carefully drawn map, and assigned its place within a sprawling concentration of upright stones across undulating pastureland in north Tipperary. When someone went looking for it later, there was nothing to see.

The broader group to which it belongs is remarkable in its own right, and also somewhat puzzling. When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still standing across the two adjoining townlands of Timoney Hills and Cullaun, describing them as "a most remarkable group." All were of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres in height, with the larger examples averaging around 1.5 metres. By the time Geraldine Stout's Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin was published in 1984, the tally had reached 245 stones on paper, but 70 of those had already been removed, along with five cairns, a cairn being a mound of stones typically associated with burial. The Inspector noted in 1936 that the stones did not appear to follow any obvious arrangement or alignment, with the exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. That absence of a discernible pattern is itself unusual; most comparable prehistoric groupings show at least some spatial logic. Adding further complication is the fact that these stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, once belonging to the Parker-Hutchinson family, and their presence on managed demesne land has led some to question whether all the stones are genuinely ancient or whether some may have been placed or repositioned during the era of estate improvement. The question has not been definitively resolved, and it lends the whole site an atmosphere of productive uncertainty.