A feature carefully recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, one of the most systematic cartographic undertakings in nineteenth-century Ireland, had vanished entirely by the time someone went looking for it in 1983. No depression, no spoil heap, no trace whatsoever remained on the surface.

The OS Fair Plan, an earlier working document used in the preparation of the published maps, annotates the spot as one of three features marked "G. Pits" in the area, which points to a gravel pit rather than anything more archaeologically loaded. Gravel pits of this kind were common practical features of the rural landscape, dug to provide road-fill or drainage material and then quietly backfilled once they had served their purpose. Because the feature post-dates AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of formal archaeological classification, sitting in that slightly awkward zone between history and memory, too recent to be ancient and too thoroughly erased to be visible. What the maps preserve, then, is not the pit itself but the cartographic moment when someone thought it worth marking down, before the ground closed over it and the corn grew on.