During a field survey in 1988, pieces of worked wood turned up in the peatland, the kind of find that, in wetter and more dramatic circumstances, might have been the first sign of a togher (a bog road), a platform, or some other deliberate human structure preserved for millennia in the anaerobic depths. Peat, by its nature, is extraordinarily good at holding organic material that would otherwise rot away entirely, which is why wooden objects from the prehistoric and early medieval periods can survive in Irish bogs long after any trace of them has vanished from drier ground.

The find was recorded by archaeologist B. Raftery, cited in a 1990 publication, and noted as part of a broader effort to catalogue potential wetland archaeology across Ireland. Worked wood in a bog context is not automatically ancient, and the pieces uncovered here did not yield enough information to confirm they were the remains of a deliberate structure of any particular period or purpose. The evidence, as assessed at the time, was judged insufficient to classify the site as an archaeological monument. It sits, therefore, in an interesting category: noted, recorded, and left open. Not dismissed, but not confirmed either.