Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Carrowmore (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (Carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24890, -8.52041
- SMR number
- SL014-209019-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At Carrowmore passage tomb cemetery. This boulder circle with central structure was destroyed in the 19th century. Indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch maps as a circle of dots, it was already partly destroyed when visited by Petrie who described it as follows: ‘The remains of this circle, which was destroyed with its cromleac about three years since, consist of 24 large stones.' (Stokes 1868, 250; No. 50) There is now no trace of the monument at ground level.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.