It was noted during a field survey in 1989, passed along as a personal communication from archaeologist B. Raftery, and has occupied an uncertain category ever since: present, logged, but not quite enough to be called a monument.

Peatlands across Ireland have yielded some of the country's most remarkable archaeological finds, from ancient trackways to preserved human remains, because the cold, acidic, waterlogged conditions of a bog slow decay to almost nothing. Wood that would rot within decades in open soil can survive for thousands of years in peat. That context makes any deposit of wood in a boggy landscape worth a second look. In this case, however, the evidence gathered at Slieve did not meet the threshold required to confirm it as the remains of a deliberate structure or construction. It remains on record as a find of potential interest, one of many ambiguous traces scattered across the Irish wetland landscape that resist easy classification.