The Ordnance Survey six-inch map revised in 1947 marked the spot with hachures, the small radiating lines cartographers used to suggest raised or otherwise notable ground features, giving the impression that something worth recording sat on that rise. When the site was inspected in 1983, the feature turned out to be an infilled quarry pit, dug and abandoned sometime after 1700.

The gap between what a map implies and what the ground holds is one of the quieter pleasures of Irish local history. Demesne quarries of the post-medieval period were practical affairs, opened to supply stone for estate buildings, boundary walls, or drainage works, and closed again once the need had passed. Because this one post-dates AD 1700, it falls outside the scope of archaeological protection, which in Ireland generally concerns itself with features from earlier periods. That boundary is a legal and scholarly convenience rather than a judgment on interest, and it does leave a category of comparatively recent industrial and estate features in an ambiguous position: documented enough to appear on a mid-twentieth-century map revision, but not old enough to attract formal heritage attention.