On the 1933 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, a hachured marking, the cartographer's shorthand for a depression or earthwork of some kind, caught the attention of field investigators. When someone finally went to look in 1983, they found a disused quarry, long since abandoned, sitting quietly among the fields.

The quarry's post-1700 date is the detail that shapes its story, or rather, its absence of one in the official record. Because it falls after that threshold, it lies outside the scope of archaeological survey work focused on earlier remains, and so it occupies a curious administrative limbo: present on the landscape, noted and inspected, but filed away rather than fully examined. Quarries of this period were working features of rural life, cut to extract stone for field walls, road surfaces, or building foundations, and they could be small and local, serving a single townland or estate. This one left no further trace in the record beyond its identification.