What is recorded here

Dolmen is a passage tomb in Carrowmore (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It is a dismantled megalithic tomb where five gneiss boulders still mark an oval mound about five metres by three. George Petrie counted twelve stones in 1837, but five had already been removed. By 1940 only four supporting stones and a hollow remained, and one more stone has since reappeared on the surface.

See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) This is a National Monument in State care (No. 153). Attached images: SL014-209018-_01.JPG viewed from NW SL014-209018-_02.JPG viewed from W Date of upload: 10 January 2012

Portal dolmen; Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). Part of the significant Carrowmore megalithic complex, one of the earliest and most important Neolithic burial sites in Ireland.

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