Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Primrosegrange, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Primrosegrange
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Megalithic monuments
- Coordinates
- 54.24353, -8.55620
- SMR number
- SL014-166----
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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 tomb was excavated between 1996 and 1998 as part of the Swedish Archaeological Excavations campaign at Carrowmore. The excavations have shown that 'that the tomb was in use at the same time as the Carrowmore cemetery. An intact deposition layer inside the chamber, excavated during 1997, has produced a date of around 4000 BC . . .' The tomb has produced large quantities of unburned human bones, as well as stone and bone artefacts. All the burials found in tomb were inhumations. The finds included extraordinary pieces of chert artefacts, mainly leaf-shaped or pointed arrow-heads. (Burenhult 1998)
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.