By the mid-twentieth century, surveyors had counted 221 stones still upright across the two adjoining townlands of Timoney Hills and Cullaun, with a further 70 already removed. An earlier survey mapped as many as 245, along with five cairns, all of which have since disappeared. The particular stone recorded as 5Z1 is a modest, rectangular block of roughly 0.8 metres in height, oriented east to west on its long axis, and it is one of 46 within a single field.

When the Inspector of National Monuments described the group in 1936, he noted that the stones, all of red sandstone or conglomerate and standing between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres tall, did not appear to follow any deliberate arrangement, with one exception: a stone circle in the townland of Cullaun. That absence of obvious patterning is itself part of what makes Timoney unusual. Most concentrations of standing stones in Ireland invite some theory of alignment or ritual geography, but these seem to resist tidy explanation. There is a further complication. The stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, once the property of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and that setting has led some to question whether all or part of the group dates to genuine prehistory or whether stones were repositioned or introduced during the improvement of the estate grounds, a common enough practice among landed families with a taste for antiquarian atmosphere.

The stones are spread across private farmland and the former estate grounds, and access is not straightforward. The individual stone recorded here sits in pasture within a working agricultural landscape, so any visit would require care about land access and seasonal ground conditions. The sheer number of stones means that even a partial view of the field gives a reasonable sense of the density of the group, with low red-tinged forms rising from the grass at irregular intervals, their purpose, and in some cases their origin, still genuinely unresolved.