Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Carrowmore (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Megalithic Structure
- Coordinates
- 54.24961, -8.52163
- SMR number
- SL014-209013-
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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
At Carrowmore passage tomb cemetery, on the line of a field boundary. This boulder circle with a central structure was damaged prior to 1837. In 1837 Petrie recorded it (No. 53) as follows: 'A few stones only of this circle remain. It was destroyed a few years ago…as usual it had a cromlech within it.’ (Stokes 1868, 181). Nine displaced gneiss boulders survive W of a field boundary with six more incorporated into the field boundary (Bergh 1995, 199-200, Carrowmore 53).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
References
Stokes, W. 1868 The life and labours in art and archaeology of George Petrie, LL.D., M.R.I.A. London. Longmans, Green and Co.
Bergh, S. 1995 Landscape of the monuments. Stockholm. Bureau for Archaeological Excavation.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.