That absence of arrangement is itself part of what makes the site so quietly puzzling. Most prehistoric stone settings follow some discernible geometry, whether a circle, an alignment, or a pair. Here, the stones simply appear, upright or fallen, spread across fields, with only one stone circle identified among them, in the Cullaun portion of the group.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 stones still present, 173 in Timoney Hills and 48 in Cullaun, and noted that they ranged from roughly 0.9 to 1.8 metres above ground, all of red sandstone or conglomerate of the same geological period. A later map published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin recorded 245 stones in total, of which 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns, which had also disappeared by that point. The individual stone covered here, catalogued as stone 6L on the inspector's map, sits in a field where 35 stones were recorded in that same survey; 12 were still upright at the time, and 23 had fallen. By the time of more recent fieldwork, this particular stone could not be located at all, lost beneath dense scrub vegetation. There is also a broader uncertainty hanging over the whole group. Because the stones lie within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, formerly belonging to the Parker-Hutchinson family, questions have been raised about whether they are genuinely ancient monuments or features introduced as part of estate improvement, a practice not unknown among improving landlords of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. No firm conclusion appears to have been reached.