The 1946 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map showed a hachured feature at this spot, the kind of marking that can suggest an earthwork, a mound, or some other irregularity in the landscape worth investigating.

When the site was examined in 1984, the feature resolved itself into a disused sand pit. 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. Sand pits of this kind were once commonplace across rural Ireland, dug to provide material for mortar, drainage work, or the improvement of heavy soils. Most have long since been forgotten, absorbed back into the fields around them or noted only as minor undulations in the ground. This one earned a brief moment of attention simply because a cartographic squiggle suggested, for a few decades, that it might be something else.