For a few years, it carried the quiet authority of an official designation, listed as an enclosure, the kind of roughly circular or oval earthwork that might signal an ancient farmstead, a ring fort, or some other remnant of early settlement. That status rested on a cropmark visible in an aerial photograph, those faint differences in vegetation colour and growth rate that, seen from above, can sketch the outline of buried or disturbed ground beneath. Cropmarks have revealed genuine archaeology across Ireland, but they can also mislead, and this one did.

In 1986, the site entered the Sites and Monuments Record as an enclosure on the strength of that aerial image alone. Then, in August 1989, someone went to look. The enclosure was a quarry, an extraction site rather than a habitation or boundary, and the record was corrected accordingly. It is a small episode in the long process of understanding the landscape, a reminder that the aerial view, for all its usefulness, is an interpretation rather than a fact, and that ground-level inspection sometimes dissolves what the camera seemed to confirm.