What makes the site particularly odd is not just the sheer number of stones but the nagging question of whether they are genuinely ancient at all.

When the Inspector of National Monuments surveyed the area between 1934 and 1936, he counted 221 surviving stones spread across two adjoining townlands, Timoney Hills and Cullaun, with 173 in the former and 48 in the latter. He described them as "a most remarkable group," noting that they appeared to follow no particular arrangement, with the exception of one stone circle in Cullaun. All were of red sandstone or conglomerate, standing between roughly 0.9 and 1.8 metres above ground. By the time Geraldine Stout published the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin in 1984, the original tally had reached 245, of which 70 had been removed, along with five cairns that have since disappeared entirely. The specific stone documented here measures 1.2 metres high by 1.06 metres wide and 0.4 metres thick, roughly subrectangular in shape, and crucially has no packing stones around its base, the kind of material prehistoric monument-builders typically used to secure uprights in the ground. That absence is telling. The stones sit within the landscaped estate of Timoney Park, historically associated with the Parker-Hutchinson family, and their position within a managed demesne has led some to question whether the whole arrangement, or at least parts of it, might be a relatively modern landscape feature rather than a prehistoric one. The question has never been definitively resolved, which gives the site an unusual double strangeness: mysterious in arrangement, and uncertain in origin.