Platform SL039-166---- in Cross

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What is recorded here

This is one of four platform-like features (SL039-164----; SL039-165----; SL039-167----) cut into the steep W facing lower slope of Kesh Corran hill. It is located up-slope and to the SW of SL039-165----. It consists of a sub-circular area (c. 8.5m N-S by c. 8.5m E-W) quarried out of the hill side. The quarried material was used to create a level platform. The precise nature of these monuments is unknown: it does not seem likely that they functioned as quarries and a full elucidation must await further investigation (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). Image SL039-166----_02, looking N, shows the extent of the platform.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL039-166

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Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Eastern Harps GAA Club; individual photographer not named, www.easternharps.com
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Eamonn McMunn / Sligo GAA (credit printed on photograph), www.sligogaa.ie
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