At its greatest recorded extent, the group ran to 245 stones, accompanied by five cairns. By the time a survey was conducted in 1934 to 1936, 221 remained, and a later map published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin (Stout, 1984) found that 70 had been removed entirely, along with all five cairns. The individual stone described here is modest by any measure: just half a metre tall, square in section, and showing no trace of the packing stones that would normally be found wedged around the base to keep an ancient monolith upright.

The Inspector of National Monuments, writing in 1936, called the surviving group "a most remarkable" assemblage. The stones are all of red sandstone or conglomerate, ranging from roughly three to six feet in height, and they appear to follow no obvious geometric arrangement, with one exception: a stone circle in the Cullaun townland. What makes the whole site genuinely complicated is its setting within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family. That context has led some to question whether all or part of the group is genuinely ancient, or whether some stones were placed or repositioned as ornamental features during the landscaping of the demesne. The absence of packing stones around this particular example adds a small but nagging note of ambiguity to that question, since prehistoric standing stones were typically set into the ground with supporting material around their base.