That ambiguity alone sets this place apart. The stone in question is a rectangular slab of modest proportions, roughly 1.4 metres tall, oriented along a north-south axis and sitting without the packing stones that typically stabilise prehistoric uprights. Whether that absence is meaningful or simply the result of centuries of ground disturbance is unclear.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 surviving stones, 173 of them in the townland of Timoney Hills and a further 48 in the adjoining townland of Cullaun. His description was unambiguous about their visual effect: he called them a most remarkable group. The stones, all of red sandstone or conglomerate, stood between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres above ground, with no discernible arrangement beyond a single stone circle identified in Cullaun. By the time Stout mapped them in 1984 for the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin, the total had grown to 245 on record, though 70 had already been removed along with five cairns, a cairn being a mound of stones often associated with burial. The cumulative losses point to centuries of clearance for farmland. What complicates the picture is that all of this sits within the landscaped grounds of Timoney Park, the former estate of the Parker-Hutchinson family, and the possibility that some or all of the stones were arranged or relocated as ornamental features during estate improvement cannot be ruled out. The stones carry National Monument designation, number 353, which offers legal protection regardless of origin.