What the Ordnance Survey recorded in 1931 as an unenclosed area of rough vegetation was found, when someone finally went to look in 1984, to be a disused quarry pit, overgrown and quietly subsiding back into the poorly drained pastureland around it. The gap between the map and the ground, more than fifty years in this case, is a small reminder of how much industrial or extractive activity once dotted the rural landscape and has since been absorbed by it.

Quarrying of this kind, typically small-scale and localised, was once common across Ireland, supplying stone for field walls, roads, or nearby buildings without ever being formally recorded as an industrial concern. Such pits were opened, worked until the immediate need was met, and then abandoned, leaving depressions that bramble and rush gradually colonised. The 1931 OS six-inch map, which remains a valuable document for tracking land use in the early twentieth century, captured this site at a moment when it had already fallen out of use but before vegetation had completely disguised its outline. By the time of the 1984 inspection, only that outline and the character of the ground itself gave the game away.