In the pastureland at Srah, with bogland stretching away to the south, there is a small depression in the ground that once caught the attention of a cartographer and, decades later, an inspector who came to find out why. What they found was a disused sand or gravel pit, the kind of working hollow that would have supplied raw material for local construction or road maintenance at some point after 1700.

The pit first appeared as a hachured feature on the 1948 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Hachuring, a method of indicating relief or surface irregularity through short radiating lines, was used by mapmakers to flag depressions, earthworks, and mounds of potential interest. When the site was inspected on the ground in 1983, the feature turned out to be post-medieval in origin, a working quarry of relatively recent date rather than anything older. That determination placed it outside the scope of archaeological classification, since the threshold for formal archaeological interest generally sits at pre-AD 1700 remains.

What remains is a small, quiet irony: a landscape feature mundane enough to be overlooked, yet notable enough to have been mapped, queried, and formally assessed. The bogland to the south would have made this corner of Connacht a practical source of extractable material in an otherwise wet and difficult terrain, and the pit likely served a very local, very ordinary purpose before being abandoned and absorbed back into the pasture.