Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06586, -8.37178
- SMR number
- SL040-229----
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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 pasture on an E-facing terrace on the northern slopes of the Bricklieve Mountains and commanding a view over Lough Arrow 1.6 km to the E. The scant remains of a structure, possibly a chamber (L 2.2m) aligned NW-SE, stand in a mound of subrectangular plan (8.5m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE; H 0.4m). To the NW two opposed orthostats, the taller 0.7m high, stand 1.2m apart at either side of a low stone, possibly a sill, set transversely between them. These stones may mark the front of a chamber that appears to be closed by a stone (H 0.6m) some 2.2m to the SE of and parallel to the sillstone. Another stone (H 0.65m) is set face on to the NW end of the more northerly of the opposed orthostats. A partly buried stone immediately alongside the outer face of the more southerly of the opposed orthostats is not definitely structural. There are three prostrate stones at the site, the largest 1.75m in max. dimension. Enclosure (SL040-03201-) c. 150m to SSE.
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 a plan of the monument (surveyed 1994).
Date of upload: 27 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.