Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Carnaweeleen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaweeleen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Graves
- Coordinates
- 54.06741, -8.43323
- SMR number
- SL040-006001-
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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
(In the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery). On a spur on the northern slopes of Kesh Corann and commanding an extensive outlook to the N. A NE-facing passage tomb (L 5m) stands towards the N end of a ruined circular cairn (diam. 19m; H c. 0.5m). Some kerbstones at the W side of the cairn and one or two possible examples at the E indicate an original diameter of c. 15m. Eight orthostats form the more easterly side of the tomb. There are four, possibly five, in situ at the opposite side and it is closed by a substantial backstone. An in-turn of the more easterly side divides the tomb into an inner (L 3m; max. Wth 1.5m) and outer (L 2m) compartment. A large roofstone (max. dim. 2.5m) is in place above the inner compartment. A much smaller stone wedged between the forward end of the last and the more westerly side of the tomb may be a displaced roofstone. A large slab (max. dim. 2.1m) leans against the outer face of the more westerly side of the outer compartment and would seem to be a displaced roofstone. Ten or more relatively small slabs lie displaced at the site. In 1993 a small pocket of cremated bone, apparently a secondary deposition, found near the kerb was later identified as the remains of one adult (Buckley and Mount 1994, 71). An enclosure (SL040-00602-) lies immediately to S. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 84)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
See linked documents with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) together with plans and sections of the monument (surveyed 1996).
SL040-006001_01.pdf
SL040-006001_02.pdf
SL040-006001_03.pdf
Date of upload: 27 May 2013
Attached images:
SL040.006001-_01.JPG Passage tomb with remnants of surrounding cairn, viewed from W
SL040.006001-_02.JPG viewed from NW
SL040.006001-_03.JPG possible displaced capstone viewed NNW
SL040.006001-_04.JPG Remnant of chamber viewed from E
SL040.006001-_05.JPG viewed from S
SL040.006001-_06.JPG viewed from W
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.