On the 1930 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map covering Moorfield in County Galway, a hachured area, meaning a patch marked with short radiating lines conventionally used to indicate an excavation or depression in the ground, drew enough attention to prompt a physical visit more than half a century later. When someone finally went to look in 1984, the feature turned out to be a disused gravel pit, ordinary in itself, but a small reminder of how landscape features that once served a practical local purpose can linger on in the cartographic record long after the work has stopped and the site has been quietly absorbed back into the countryside.