Roughly 25 metres across, the feature was recorded in both the 1988 and 1998 editions of the statutory monuments registers, where it sat listed alongside ringforts and fulachta fiadh as though it might be something ancient and significant. It is, in fact, a quarry.

The confusion is understandable in its way. When the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1842, the feature was already present, rendered as a neat circular shape that, to later eyes scanning the record, could plausibly suggest an enclosure of archaeological interest. Circular earthworks and enclosures are common across Munster, and a roughly 25-metre diameter falls within the range of smaller ringforts or enclosures. The site continued to appear on subsequent OS map editions without any annotation that might distinguish it from something more ancient, and so the assumption persisted in the registers for decades. It was eventually determined to be a quarry and removed from the category of archaeological monuments.