The field where it stands, or stood, has since been swallowed by furze and scrub, which is perhaps a fitting fate for a monument whose very origins remain uncertain.

The stone is one component of what was, at its fullest extent, a group of around 245 standing stones spread across two adjoining townlands, Timoney Hills and Cullaun, with five cairns also recorded among them. When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area between 1934 and 1936, 221 stones could still be accounted for: 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun. His description of the group noted that the stones, all of red sandstone or conglomerate and standing roughly between 0.9 and 1.8 metres above ground, did not appear to follow any particular arrangement, with the single exception of an obvious stone circle in Cullaun. By the time Stout's Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin was published in 1984, seventy stones had been removed, along with all five cairns. The individual stone known as 7C sits within a subset of twenty-five stones identified in one field of this wider complex. What complicates the picture considerably is that the entire group lies within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, historically associated with the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that setting has led some to question whether these are genuinely ancient prehistoric monuments or whether they owe something to later estate improvement and deliberate arrangement. The question has not been resolved.