What is recorded here

Cist is a cist in Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. The roofless rectangular chamber uses four large stones to mark its sides and ends, while five smaller stones protrude near the north edge. A local story claims rabbit hunters broke a covering slab that once roofed the structure.

This is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). A roofless rectangular cist (2m N-S; 1.2m E-W) constructed of four stones. One stone (L 2.15m; T 0.3m; H 0.5m) forms the E side and another (L 1.9m; T 0.4m; H 0.75m) the W side. A stone (L 1.6m; T 0.35m; H 0.55m), set slightly beyond the end of these two sidestones, marks the S end of the cist. The N end is closed by a stone (L 1.05m; T 0.2m; H 0.4m) set between the ends of the sidestones. Five stones, protruding from the ground just beyond the N end of the cist, are of uncertain origin. Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger (1912, 331) reported a local claim that the cist had been roofed but that the covering slab had been broken up by rabbit hunters. There is a passage tomb (SL040-093----) c. 20m to SW. 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). See linked document with a plan of the monument (surveyed 1983). Date of upload: 27 May 2013

Neolithic cist tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. It is part of the Carrowkeel passage tomb complex, a significant Bronze Age burial and ritual site in the northwest of Ireland.

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