Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Carrowmore (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- SL014-209083-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Bergh (1995, 194) records the following: ‘Within the memory of the old people there was a remarkable cairn adjacent to these circles [C31 and C32; SL014-209072- and SL014-209073-] which gave the name to the hill Leachtareal. It was destroyed many years asince to build walls, and not a trace of it remains.’ (Petrie 1837, p. 247). Wood-Martin quotes Petrie (above) and adds: “A great quantity of bones were found in it.” (Wood-Martin 1888, p. 62)’ Bergh (ibid.) agrees with Herity (1974, 268) in identifying the possible location of this monument about 100m east of Carrowmore 31 and 32. The precise location of this cairn is unknown as the area has been extensively quarried. Bergh (ibid.) records that the roadwalls nearby are mainly constructed of round stones (c. 0.2m - 0.4m) which could have originated from this cairn.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 14 February 2014
References
Bergh, S. 1995 Landscape of the monuments. Stockholm. Bureau for Archaeological Excavation.
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Wood-Martin, W.G. 1888 The rude stone monuments of Ireland (Co. Sligo and the island of Achill). Hodges Figgis, Dublin.