Spotted from the air and logged tentatively in the 1980s, it has lingered in official registers for decades without ever quite earning the status of a confirmed monument.

The site first appeared as a potential site identified from aerial photography in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1988, and was subsequently reclassified simply as a quarry in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1998. That reclassification is itself telling. The move from vague possibility to functional label did not resolve the uncertainty so much as redirect it. Reviewers concluded that the available evidence was not sufficient to accept the site as the location of an archaeological monument, leaving it in an ambiguous category that is more common than most people realise. Across Ireland, aerial surveys regularly flag crop marks, soil discolourations, and surface irregularities that might indicate buried archaeology or might equally reflect geology, drainage, or centuries of agricultural activity. Quarries complicate matters further, since extraction work can both destroy earlier features and, occasionally, expose them.