What is recorded here
Wedge tomb in Carrownrush (tireragh By., Easky West Ed) is a wedge tomb in Carrownrush (tireragh By., Easky West Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. Seán Ó Nualláin included it in his Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Volume V, for County Sligo. The stationery office published that volume in Dublin in 1989.
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Date of upload: 9 January 2012
Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). This type of tomb is significant as it represents a regional variant of megalithic burial practice in western Ireland, often associated with changing funerary traditions and social organisation.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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