On the 1944 to 1945 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the site appears as a hachured feature, the kind of mark surveyors used to indicate a hollow or earthwork of some kind. It looked, on paper, like something worth noting. When a field inspector visited in 1994, half a century after the map revision, it turned out to be a disused sand or gravel quarry, the sort of small working that would once have supplied raw material for local road repairs, field drainage, or building work. Because it post-dates AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of formal archaeological protection, and so it was recorded and set aside.

There is a particular kind of interest in sites like this one. The gap between a mark on a map and what that mark actually represents is a small reminder of how landscape features accumulate meaning and then lose it. The six-inch Ordnance Survey maps, revised periodically across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, recorded the Irish countryside with considerable care, but a hachured depression could mean many things, and the only way to know was to go and look. That inspection in 1994 closed the question cleanly. A quarry, post-1700, no further action required. What remains is a patch of pasture in east Galway with a slight irregularity underfoot and a paper trail that stretches from a cartographer's pen to a fieldworker's clipboard.