Marked in gothic lettering on Ordnance Survey maps from as far back as 1839, and again on the 1940 edition, it is recorded simply as "Bullock's Track", a designation formal enough to have been considered worth preserving across a full century of cartography, yet obscure enough that no clear explanation for it survives.

The feature itself is a natural fissure in the west-facing slope of a raised rock outcrop, with sea-cliffs of around five metres dropping away roughly forty-five metres to the south-east. The gothic lettering used to label it on both map editions is the same convention typically reserved for antiquities and named features of historic interest, which is part of what makes the site quietly puzzling. The name suggests a path or passage associated with livestock, a "bullock" being a young castrated bull, and such informal trackways along cliff-edge outcrops are not unusual in Irish coastal farming landscapes. What is unusual here is that the feature sits only about twenty metres from the medieval parish church of St. Helen's, yet no known connection between the two has been established. Whether the name reflects a working agricultural route, a reference to a particular landowner or incident, or something else entirely, is not recorded.