For years it sat in the Sites and Monuments Record as a possible enclosure, the kind of designation that conjures images of prehistoric settlements or early medieval ringforts, the circular earthworks that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands. In reality, it was a hole in the ground left by quarrying work.

The confusion began with cartography. When compilers working on the SMR in 1992 and the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996 consulted the 1922 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, they saw hachuring, the short radiating lines used to indicate slopes or earthwork edges, and interpreted it as evidence of an enclosure. A perfectly reasonable assumption from the map alone. What they had not checked was the larger-scale OS 25-inch map, which showed the same feature but labelled it plainly as a disused quarry. That detail went unnoticed until an inspection on the ground in 2001 settled the matter, and the site was quietly removed from the list of potential archaeological monuments.