A survey carried out between 1934 and 1936 counted 221 stones still upright across two adjoining townlands in County Tipperary, Timoney Hills and Cullaun. By 1953, a follow-up by the National Monuments Service found that a single field which had contained nine of those stones was down to just one. The particular stone recorded here as 2E on the original survey map has vanished entirely, leaving only a circular boulder absorbed into the rubble of an old field boundary, possibly the same stone, possibly not.

The 1936 Inspector of National Monuments described the group in notably careful terms. The stones, all of red sandstone or conglomerate and ranging from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres in height, did not appear to follow any deliberate arrangement, with the exception of one stone circle in the Cullaun townland. By the time Stout's Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin was published in 1984, the count had risen to 245 on paper, but 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, a type of mounded stone burial monument, that were also gone. That upward revision in the total number, combined with the steady losses, gives the whole assemblage an unstable quality on the historical record. There is also a more fundamental uncertainty hanging over the site: because the stones lie within the landscaped grounds of the Parker-Hutchinson estate at Timoney Park, questions have been raised about whether they are genuinely ancient monuments or were arranged, at least in part, as estate features during a more recent era of designed landscape-making.

For anyone exploring the area, the undulating pasture around Timoney Hills still holds surviving members of the group elsewhere in the townland, and the contrast between what the 1930s maps recorded and what remains on the ground is itself a kind of document, measuring not just the passage of time but the pressures that land ownership and agricultural clearance have placed on monuments that may, or may not, have stood here since prehistory.