On the 1920 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, it appears as a hachured marking, the fine radiating lines surveyors used to indicate a depression or a break in the ground. It took a physical inspection in 1983 to confirm what that marking actually represented: a disused quarry, long since abandoned and quietly reverting to the surrounding landscape.

The quarry dates to after 1700, which places it firmly in the era of agricultural improvement and estate development that reshaped much of the Irish countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Small quarries of this kind were typically opened to extract stone for local use, supplying material for field walls, farm buildings, or road surfaces, and they were often worked for only a short period before being left once the immediate need was met or the accessible stone exhausted. Because it falls within the post-medieval period, it sits outside the scope of archaeological protection, which is partly why places like this tend to go unrecorded and unvisited, occupying an awkward gap between the ancient and the merely old.