Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

In the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery. At the northern extremity of a N-S ridge. The cairn, part of the N end of which has slipped over the end of the ridge on which it sits, is of oval plan (18m N-S; 23m E-W; H 2.5m). Some piled stones on the top of the cairn may be a 19th-century OS trigononmetrical station. A small number of kerbstones are intermittently visible around the southern half of the perimeter. A substantially rubble-filled chamber is partly exposed in a hole in the eastern half of the cairn. This consists of two opposed orthostats, 0.7m apart, aligned E-W, which support a roofstone (min. L 2m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.25m). The nature of this chamber is uncertain but it could be the remains of a passage tomb. A short cist (SL040-016002-) was uncovered just inside the W edge of the cairn (Rynne 1969). (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 document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)