Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform
Cross, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05954, -8.45108
- SMR number
- SL039-164----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is one of four platform-like features (SL039-165----; SL039-166----; SL039-167----) cut into the steep W facing lower slope of Kesh Corran hill. It consists of a sub-circular area (c. 2m N-S by c. 3.5m 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).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 January 2014
Image SL039-164----_01 shows the scooped-out area viewed from the N.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.