Marked as a hachured depression on the 1948 revision of the six-inch map, and named 'Gravel Pit (Disused)' on the larger twenty-five-inch plan, it is the kind of place that cartographers recorded dutifully and almost everyone else has since forgotten. Gravel pits like this one were once commonplace across rural Ireland, worked to supply the road-building and drainage projects that transformed the landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, then quietly abandoned once the seam ran thin or the need moved elsewhere.