The Ordnance Survey six-inch map, revised between 1945 and 1946, marked the feature with hachures, the small radiating lines cartographers use to suggest a rise, hollow, or earthwork of potential interest. That notation was enough to send someone to investigate it in person, decades later.

When the site was inspected in 1985, the feature turned out to be a quarry pit, its edges softened and its floor obscured by grass, sitting quietly in the landscape with no obvious indication of what it once was. Because it post-dates AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of formal archaeological classification in Ireland, which tends to focus on earlier remains. That cutoff is not a judgement on the place's interest so much as a practical boundary drawn around a particular era of human activity. Quarrying of this kind, extracting stone or gravel for local use in field boundaries, roads, or buildings, was common across rural Ireland from the eighteenth century onward, and small workings like this one were rarely recorded in any systematic way. Many have since been absorbed back into the farmland around them, recognisable only as slight depressions or anomalies in an otherwise even field.