Hachures, the short radiating lines cartographers used to suggest slope or depression, can indicate anything from earthworks to quarry cuts, and for decades these particular markings were little more than a cartographic curiosity. When someone finally went to look in 1985, they found a pair of overgrown, disused quarry pits, their edges long since softened by vegetation and time.

Because the pits date to after 1700, they fall outside the scope of archaeological protection, which in Ireland generally concerns itself with features from earlier periods. That boundary is not arbitrary; it reflects where the archaeological record tends to thin into the merely historical. The Killevny pits are post-medieval workings, most likely dug to extract stone or gravel for local use, the kind of small-scale extractive feature that once dotted the Irish countryside and rarely made it into any formal record. What makes them mildly curious is precisely this ordinariness: they survived long enough to be mapped in 1946, investigated in 1985, and noted, if briefly, before the landscape continued its slow work of reclaiming them.