Built around 4600-3900 BC. It has been estimated that there were originally over 100 monuments at Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery. Come prepared for a hike across rugged terrain.5km from Sligo / Dublin road off the N4 at N4 – R292 junctionClick the relevant icon below to open Maps directionsKeep up to date on our news, events, activities and publications.Carrowmore with Queen Maeve’s Cairn on Knocknarea in backgroundCarrowmore with a cloud covered Ben Bulben in backgroundCarrowmore during a snowy period with a snowcovered Ben Bulben in the background. by land clearance and gravel quarrying. were badly damaged in the early years of the nineteenth century is located at the heart of the Thirty monuments remain at Carrowmore today, in varying states of preservation and completion, the most perfect being Number 7. CARROWMORE MEGALITHIC CEMETERY +353 71 916 1534 Sur la petite péninsule de Coolrea (Cúil Irra en gaélique), près de Sligo, le site de Carrowmore forme le plus grand cimetière de tombes mégalithiques en Irlande (plus de soixante tombes, dont trente sont visibles) et l'un des plus anciens (environ 4000 av. There were originally over 80 monuments on this site including chamber tombs, ring forts, cairns and passage graves. Ox Mountains to the south, specifically from the area around There is no evidence that stone cairns ever covered the dolmens at Carrowmore; instead they appear to have been an early free-standing form of passage-grave, with the chamber supported by a platform or tertre. The oldest remains of red deer currently known on this island are the carved antler pins, one of the most common items found within the Carrowmore chambers.Because so many of the monuments have been destroyed and disturned, the remaining records of some It lies just south-west of Sligo town, right at the heart of the Cúil Írra Peninsula, an area alive with prehistoric significance. There are an During the early part of the 19 thcentury, however, land clearance by farmers, meddling by amateur archaeologists, and quarrying have caused much damage to the site.

Most are passage tombs and boulder circles. stones used to construct the monuments are a very hard form of glacial rock leading into the chamber. About 60 of these monuments have been identified, though only aro… This website provides a virtual tour of the monuments at Carrowmore, with a page There may have been more monuments in the complex originally, but some fell victim to quarrying and field clearance during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

Listoghil, the central and focal monument at the Carrowmore Megalithic Complex in County Sligo. Most of the sites are "satellite tombs" which surround the largest monument, placed on the high point of the plateau, the cairn (now restored) called Listoghil. It seems that in some cases they were dropped by the galciers can be seen to the south of Carrowmore and on the south slopes of A good The site is owned and managed by the OPW, please contact the visitor Centre, 071 9161534, for details. Others have claimed that there had been as many as 200 monuments at the site. The sockets of missing stones were Sligo Kayak Tours; Strandhill Beach; Carrowkeel; Knocknarea; Perfect Day Surf School; Sligo Surf Experience; Sligo Boat Charters; Voya Seaweed Baths; Atlantic Sheepdogs; Sligo Abbey; Rosses Point; Coney Island; Benbulben; Sligo Tours; Tobernalt Holy Well; Sights & Landmarks in Sligo. These are found at Carrowmore, a collection of burial monuments at the centre of the Carrowmore average of 30 to 35 stones per circle, set side by side and placed standing upright. The average diameters of the Carrowmore circles are 10 to 12 meters, though a few monuments such as 19, example is the massive capstone on the chamber at Fragments of quartz

Green in the late 1890's. Carrowmore – the largest cemetery of megalithic tombs in Ireland. The type of monuments found at Carrowmore are boulder circles with central dolmens and sometimes rudimentary passages.

Ancient Ruins in Sligo noted 65 monuments during his visit for the Ordinance Survey in 1837, but today the number is thought to be considerably lower at a probable maximum of forty circles.

Carrowmore's placement on a low-lying gravel ridge contrasts to the hilltop situation of other cemeteries; each mounment stands on its own little eminence.


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