What is recorded here

Wedge-shaped stone platform, five metres long and sixty centimetres high, pressed against the end wall of St Michael's Church in Sceilg Mhichíl, an inscribed cross standing at its centre and another cross slab at its western edge. People may have knelt there, set offerings there, or simply walked past it on the flagged path, but the crosses and the deliberate shape suggest the ground was marked for attention rather than forgotten.

Leacht described in 1996 as follows; 'This roughly wedge-shaped platform abuts the end-wall of St Michael's Church [KE104A001042-] at SW and is defined by a portion of the main terraces' revetment wall at SE. It measures c. 5m NE-SW x 3.4m at its wider SW end, and stands 0.6m high above the flagged pathway between it and the oratory [KE104A001040-] at N. A large, inscribed, stone cross [KE104A001060-] stands towards its centre, while a cross-inscribed slab [KE104A001061-] is located at its W end' (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 285, no. 948 (13)). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 9 March 2022

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