What is recorded here

Carn is a cairn, unclassified in Tully (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It is a grass-covered oval structure about twelve metres across and two and a half metres high, sitting on a rock outcrop in the Bricklieve Mountains. This National Monument in State care belongs to the Carrowkeel passage-tomb cemetery, whose main concentration lies one and a half kilometres to the northeast.

This is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). Carn A in the Carrowkeel passage-tomb cemetery. On top of a rock outcrop, on a promontory in the Bricklieve Mountains. A grass-covered oval cairn (diam. c. 12m; H 2.5m). The main concentration of passage tombs at Carrowkeel (SL040-088----; SL040-089----; SL040-090001-; SL040-093----; SL040-094----) lies c. 1.5km to NE. (Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger 1912, 321) 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

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to the late Neolithic period (c. 2500–2000 BC). Part of the significant Carrowkeel passage-tomb complex, known for its early and finely crafted megalithic art.

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