It was noticed during a field survey in 1988, logged, assessed, and ultimately set aside, the evidence deemed insufficient to classify it as the remains of an archaeological monument. It occupies a peculiar administrative limbo, recorded but not recognised, present but unconfirmed.

The find was noted by B. Raftery, a prominent figure in Irish wetland archaeology, during survey work that was part of a broader effort to document structures and objects preserved within Irish peatlands. Bogland is an extraordinary medium for preservation; the acidic, oxygen-poor conditions can hold organic material, including timber, for thousands of years in conditions that would destroy it elsewhere. Worked wood in a bog context can indicate anything from a togher (a timber trackway laid across wet ground to allow passage) to the remains of a platform or structure built at the water's edge. In this case, the wood showed signs of human working, but not enough survives, or was recorded, to say what it once was or when it was made. The site sits in the record less as a discovery than as an open question.