On the 1932 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, it appears as a hachured feature, the small radiating lines surveyors used to suggest a depression or earthwork of some kind. To anyone reading that map, it might have looked like the remains of something ancient, perhaps a collapsed structure or a long-abandoned enclosure.

When the site was inspected in 1983, the reality turned out to be more prosaic but no less interesting for that. The feature was a disused quarry pit, worked at some point after 1700. Small local quarries like this were a practical fixture of the post-medieval Irish landscape, typically dug to extract stone for field walls, farmbuildings, or road repairs, then quietly abandoned once the useful material was exhausted. Because this one post-dates AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of archaeological classification, which in Ireland generally concerns itself with earlier remains. That boundary, reasonable enough as an administrative matter, does create a quiet irony: a feature conspicuous enough to be mapped in 1932 and investigated in 1983 sits in a kind of official gap, visible in the historical record but not quite belonging to it.