Carn

In heather-covered rough grazing, in the centre of a circular flat-topped spur of a ridge in the Bricklieve Mountains. The ground drops steeply into an upland valley to N and E and a narrow ravine separates the spur from rising ground to W where a cashel (SL040-154----) is located c. 50m to WSW. Breaks in the surrounding high ridges give views ENE to Lough Arrow, to S and on a distant ridge to N, two of the Carrowkeel passage tombs are visible. A roughly circular cairn of stones (7.5m N-S; 9.6m E-W; H 1.25m) located off-centre to N within a circular enclosure (SL040-105001-). The cairn is largely sod-covered and very dilapidated. It has been partially quarried out at NW and as a result presents an irregular, slumped profile. A ruined field boundary wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.25m), visible as a linear heather-covered rise, bisects the enclosure on an E-W axis and clips the S edge of the cairn. From the base of the cairn the ground slopes down gently to the edge of the enclosure N-E. 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

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the 4th millennium BCE. It is part of a significant cluster of megalithic monuments in the Bricklieve Mountains, reflecting early ceremonial and burial practices in the region.