They suggest something deliberate cut into the landscape, something worth marking. When surveyors working on the 1947 to 1948 revision of the six-inch OS map recorded such a feature at the western end of a ridge in the pastureland of Loughaunroe, it looked, at least on paper, like it might repay attention.

When the site was physically inspected in 1984, the reality was more prosaic, and perhaps more interesting for it. The feature turned out to be a disused quarry, no longer working stone but repurposed as a silage pit, the kind of practical reuse that happens quietly across Irish farmland when one function ends and another presents itself. Because the quarry dates to after 1700, it falls outside the scope of archaeological protection, which places it in that particular category of things that are too recent to be ancient monuments yet old enough to have been forgotten, recorded only in passing, and largely invisible to anyone who does not know to look.