On the 1947 to 1948 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the site appears as a hachured feature, the cartographic shorthand used to suggest a depression, an earthwork, or some kind of raised or sunken form in the landscape. To anyone scanning that map decades later, the marking carried a faint air of possibility, the suggestion of something older and stranger beneath the grass.

When the site was examined on the ground in 1985, it turned out to be a disused quarry, most likely worked at some point after 1700. Quarries of this period were common across rural Ireland, opened to extract limestone, sandstone, or other local stone for field walls, farmbuildings, and road surfaces. They were practical, unromantic, and often small, worked by hand and abandoned once the accessible material was exhausted or no longer needed. Because this one post-dates 1700, it falls outside the scope of the kind of archaeological survey concerned with earlier remains, and so it occupies a quiet administrative no-man's-land, documented, but only just.