What is recorded here
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:
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Date of upload: 10 January 2012
Neolithic passage tomb complex; dates to the 4th millennium BCE. One of the earliest and most significant megalithic sites in Ireland, Carrowmore is considered a ceremonial and burial centre of major importance in the development of Neolithic funerary architecture.
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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