Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Carrowbunnaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbunnaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26169, -8.58316
- SMR number
- SL014-290----
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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 cave (Cave C) is one of 26 small, inconspicuous caves on the steep NW and N slopes of Knocknarea Mountain. It comprises a long, narrow cruciform passage (L 14.5m; Wth 1m; H 1.2m). In 2002 Stefan Bergh discovered a fragment of the occipital bone from the skull of an adult human in the cave. The bone was lying on the cave floor, approximately 8m from the entrance. It returned a radiocarbon date of 4740± 50BP, placing it in the Neolithic period (Dowd 2008). Human remains of Neolithic date have also been recovered from Cave K (SL014-288----) which is located c. 50m to NW (Dowd and Kahlert 2014).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2014
References
Dowd, M. A. 2008 The use of caves for funerary and ritual practises in Neolithic Ireland. Antiquity 82, 305-317.
Nearby in the register
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.