Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carns
- Coordinates
- 54.05409, -8.37773
- SMR number
- SL040-094----
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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 is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). Carn L in the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery. On a mountain ridge, 10m W of another passage tomb (SL040-093----) and c. 400m N of a third passage tomb (SL040-101----). This is a damaged round cairn (diam. c. 18m; H 1.5m), its perimeter peat-grown. Disturbance is indicated by humps and hollows on the top of the cairn and there is a hole (c. 3m x 2m; D 1m) towards its northern edge. The disturbances may be the result of 'several examinations' conducted at the site in 1911 after which it was decided 'it would not repay investigation' (Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger 1912, 330). A small stone (L 0.55m; T 0.08m; H 0.85m) is exposed in a slight hole in the top of the cairn just N of centre. It appears to be a set stone. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 83)
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).
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 a plan and sections of the monument (surveyed 1995).
Date of upload: 27 May 2013
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