What is recorded here

Carrigeenacreba (Pagan Cemetery) is a barrow, mound barrow in Ballynaraw South, County Sligo, Ireland. The flat-topped earthen mound sits in pasture on a drumlin, measuring nineteen point five metres across at its base and twelve point five metres across at its top. Local tradition claims a gallows once stood there, while a single fixed stone now remains of a cruciform setting noted in 1989.

In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 19.5m at base, 12.5m at top; H 0.95m). According to local tradition, a gallows once stood on the mound. A single fixed stone on top of the mound is all that remains of a cruciform setting of stones which was noted (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney) in 1989. 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

A Neolithic flat-topped earthen mound; its significance is primarily local, with no confirmed archaeological or historical features recorded.

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