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 mark an oval area roughly five metres by three. George Petrie counted twelve stones in 1837 but noted five had recently been removed, while the 1940 Ordnance Survey recorded only four supporting stones and a hollow. The structure has been progressively reduced to a low mound and a handful of boulders.

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: SL014-209007-_01.JPG viewed from S SL014-209007-_02.JPG viewed from E SL014-209007-_03.JPG central chamber viewed from E 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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