Over two hundred of them, of red sandstone and conglomerate, once rose between roughly one and two metres from the ground across the townlands of Timoney Hills and Cullaun. They do not form any obvious geometric pattern, with the notable exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. They simply stand, or stood, distributed across the landscape in a way that has resisted tidy interpretation for as long as anyone has tried to explain them.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the site in 1934 to 1936, he counted 221 surviving stones, describing them as a most remarkable group. A later map, published in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin by Stout in 1984, recorded 245 stones in total, but noted that 70 had already been removed, along with five cairns. Those cairns are now entirely gone. The complicating factor in reading any of this as straightforward prehistoric archaeology is that the stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, the former demesne of the Parker-Hutchinson family. That setting has led to genuine uncertainty about whether some or all of the stones are ancient monuments or features introduced or rearranged during estate improvement. The stone recorded here specifically, marked as 4K on the 1936 survey map, now lies recumbent and may be either a collapsed standing stone or simply a natural earthfast boulder that was never upright at all. The distinction matters, and nobody has been able to settle it with confidence.