On the 1932 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the feature appears as a hachured marking, the short radiating lines surveyors used to suggest a depression or slope in the terrain. It looked like something worth investigating, though what exactly was not clear from the map alone.

When someone did investigate, in 1984, the hollow turned out to be real enough but unremarkable in archaeological terms: most likely a disused sand pit, the kind of small extractive hollow that was dug across rural Ireland to supply material for local building and land improvement. Because it dates to after AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of formal archaeological classification, which in Ireland generally concerns itself with earlier remains. That boundary is not a judgement on the place so much as a practical line drawn around a particular discipline. The hollow at Currafarry sits just the wrong side of it, too recent to be ancient, too modest to attract much other attention, quietly persisting in its hillside grass.