What is recorded here
Megalithic Structure is a megalithic tomb in Carrowmore (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The oblong mound measures about 12 metres by 9 metres and keeps a faint circular feature on top. Ordnance Survey maps from 1837 and 1913 show different shapes for the same place, suggesting its outline was already fading by the early twentieth century.
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).
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Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the 4th millennium BCE. Part of the Carrowmore megalithic complex, one of the earliest and most significant Neolithic burial sites in Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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