Settlement platforms of this kind are among the quieter features of the Irish archaeological landscape; artificially raised or levelled areas of ground that once supported a dwelling or cluster of dwellings, their occupants long gone and their date often uncertain without excavation.

Grange itself sits in a part of Sligo with an unusually dense concentration of prehistoric and early historic monuments, in the shadow of Benbulben and close to the shoreline of Drumcliff Bay. The broader area has been inhabited continuously for millennia, and a settlement platform here would fit a pattern common across the north-west of Ireland, where communities from the early medieval period and earlier chose slightly elevated or prepared ground to keep their homes above damp, to signal ownership of a place, or simply to make the land more workable. Without further detail from the archaeological record, the platform at Grange remains one of those features that raises more questions than it answers, which is, in its own way, the point.