During a field survey in 1989, a deposit of archaeological wood was noticed in the peatland here, the sort of find that briefly raises the question of whether something deliberate and human-made lies below the surface. Peatlands have a remarkable capacity to preserve organic material, including timber structures that would rot away within years in ordinary soil, which is why bogs across Ireland have yielded everything from trackways to boats to the occasional bronze-age artefact. The wood at Kilmore prompted enough interest to be recorded, but not enough certainty to go further than that.

The observation came from a field survey carried out in 1989 and was communicated by B. Raftery, a scholar associated with wetland archaeology in Ireland. The Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, based at University College Dublin, was at the time systematically recording just this kind of ambiguous evidence across the midland bogs, building a picture of how people moved through and used these waterlogged landscapes over thousands of years. In the case of Kilmore, however, the evidence was judged insufficient to confirm the wood as the remains of a genuine archaeological monument. It sits, then, in a category that archaeology occasionally produces: noticed, recorded, and ultimately unresolved.