By 1930, the Ordnance Survey had recorded it with hachures, the short radiating lines cartographers use to indicate a depression or raised feature in the terrain, and on the more detailed 25-inch plan it carried a name: Quarry (Disused). That label tells its own quiet story. Whatever extraction once took place here had already stopped before the map was even printed.

When the site was inspected in 1984, what remained was simply an irregular hollow, the kind of absence that only makes sense once you know what to look for. The quarry is thought to date to the 19th or early 20th century, a period when small local quarries were commonplace across rural Ireland, often opened to supply stone for field walls, road repairs, or farmstead construction and then abandoned once the immediate need had passed or the accessible material ran out. No dramatic industrial history appears to attach to this one. It was modest in purpose, modest in scale, and the land has largely reclaimed it.