Keshcorran Cairn

(In the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery). On the summit of Kesh Corann with a magnificent outlook in all directions. Within and close to the N edge of a hilltop enclosure (SL040-009---). This is a circular cairn (diam. 26m; H c. 4-5m) at the top of which there is a small pile of stones, apparently a 19th-century OS trigonometrical station. A hole (4m x 3m; D 0.5m) has been dug into the E slope of the cairn and there is a larger hole extending from the summit downslope to the ENE. The cairn stands on what appears to be a prepared platform (diam. c. 35m), the perimeter of which is almost 5m beyond the base of the cairn. The platform is now substantially grass-grown and in places, especially at the N, peat-grown. It is c. 0.8m high around the greater part of the perimeter but reaches 2m high at the N over falling ground. Kerbstones are intermittently visible along or just inside the platform perimeter, in particular on the southern side. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 84)