The 1947 to 1948 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map carried a hachured feature at this spot, the kind of shading cartographers used to suggest a depression or earthwork of some kind, leaving its nature open to interpretation. It was not until a physical inspection in 1985 that the feature was confirmed as a quarry, long since abandoned.

The site dates to after 1700, which places it in the era of agricultural improvement and estate development that reshaped much of the Connacht countryside. Small quarries of this kind were typically opened to extract stone for field walls, farmhouses, or estate buildings in the immediate locality, then left once the need was met. Because the site falls within the post-medieval period, it sits outside the scope of formal archaeological classification, which generally concerns itself with remains older than that threshold. That administrative boundary is, in its own way, part of the story: a place can carry genuine historical interest without attracting the attention usually reserved for earlier remains.