Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Carricknahorna East, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknahorna East
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.04077, -8.36145
- SMR number
- SL040-106----
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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
On a little plateau towards the S end of the Bricklieve Mountains. The considerably ruined structure is in a large mound (23.5m E-W; max. 17.5m N-S). The tomb consists of a gallery (L 7m) preceded at the E by the remains of opposed transeptal chambers. To the E of these the structure has been removed leaving a depression in the mound. The back and W side of the north transept and the back only of the S transept survive. To the W of the transeptal chambers one chamber (L 2.7m; Wth 2.3m) of the main gallery is intact. Beyond this three stones continue the line of the gallery for c. 4m. To the S of the gallery there are two kerbstones almost 6m apart. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 76-7, no. 121)
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)
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.