Recorded as such in both the 1988 Sites and Monuments Record and the 1998 Record of Monuments and Places, the site carries the administrative weight of official recognition, but the evidence supporting it has never quite held up to scrutiny.

What makes this particularly curious is the absence of any trace on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, one of the most thorough cartographic surveys of the Irish landscape ever undertaken. That survey, commissioned in the years following the Ordnance Survey of Ireland's establishment, documented field boundaries, buildings, roads, and landscape features with considerable precision. A working quarry, or even the earthwork remains of one, would ordinarily leave some impression on such a map. The fact that nothing appears there has led to a conclusion that the evidence is simply not sufficient to confirm this as the location of any genuine archaeological monument. The site sits, then, in a quiet category of its own: officially noted, persistently unverified.