Megalithic tomb in Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed)

In pasture on an E-facing terrace on the northern slopes of the Bricklieve Mountains and commanding a view over Lough Arrow 1.6 km to the E. The scant remains of a structure, possibly a chamber (L 2.2m) aligned NW-SE, stand in a mound of subrectangular plan (8.5m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE; H 0.4m). To the NW two opposed orthostats, the taller 0.7m high, stand 1.2m apart at either side of a low stone, possibly a sill, set transversely between them. These stones may mark the front of a chamber that appears to be closed by a stone (H 0.6m) some 2.2m to the SE of and parallel to the sillstone. Another stone (H 0.65m) is set face on to the NW end of the more northerly of the opposed orthostats. A partly buried stone immediately alongside the outer face of the more southerly of the opposed orthostats is not definitely structural. There are three prostrate stones at the site, the largest 1.75m in max. dimension. Enclosure (SL040-03201-) c. 150m to SSE. 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). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with a plan of the monument (surveyed 1994). Date of upload: 27 May 2013

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the late Neolithic period (c. 3000–2500 BCE). It is part of the Carrowkeel complex, a significant group of tombs associated with early megalithic funerary practices in the northwest of Ireland.