In a field at Kilmore, County Galway, on arable ground edged to the north by bogland, one such feature sat quietly for decades before anyone got close enough to read it properly.

On the 1932 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, a hachured symbol, the kind of hatched marking used to indicate a depression or earthwork, was noted at this location. When the site was inspected in 1984, the feature turned out to be a disused quarry pit, largely infilled by then and showing little of whatever character it once had. Because it dates to after AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of formal prehistoric and early historic survey, which tends to draw its boundary at that point. The bogland to the north, a common feature of this part of Galway, would have made the land immediately surrounding the pit difficult to work, which may partly explain why a quarry was opened here in the first place, extracting material from ground that resisted other uses.

What the pit was quarried for, how long it remained in use, and when exactly it was abandoned are questions the record does not answer. What remains is the map mark, the boggy northern margin, and the knowledge that someone, at some point after 1700, found reason enough to dig.