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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24689, -8.51260
- SMR number
- SL014-209052-
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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. This megalithic structure is indicated on the 1837 OS6-inch map as circle of dots, but is not shown on later map editions. It consisted of a boulder circle with a central construction. All above ground remains were destroyed in the early 19th century; Petrie recorded ‘this circle…has been recently destroyed with its fine and perfect cromleac’ (Notebook, p. 68, no. 30. Royal Irish Academy Ms. 23, L44). Wood-Martin (1888, 60-1) noted 'one large stone, standing solitary like a sentinel, marks the site of the monument'. The location is now occupied by a quarry, and there are no visible remains of the monument. (Bergh 1995, 193, Carrowmore 30).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
References
Wood-Martin, W.G. 1888 The rude stone monuments of Ireland (Co. Sligo and the island of Achill). Hodges Figgis, Dublin.
Bergh, S. 1995 Landscape of the monuments. Stockholm. Bureau for Archaeological Excavation.
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