At Clancool More in County Cork, a site was recorded as a quarry in successive heritage surveys during the 1980s and 1990s, yet closer scrutiny suggested the evidence was never strong enough to confirm that anything of genuine archaeological significance was actually there.

The site appeared in two successive rounds of official survey work, listed under the category of quarry, a designation that can cover everything from industrial stone extraction to features of a much older and more ambiguous origin. By 1998, however, the assessment was cautious: the available evidence fell short of what would be needed to accept the location as the site of an archaeological monument. In other words, something was noted, recorded, and then effectively set aside, leaving a placeholder where a discovery might otherwise have been.