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This is one of those sites that takes your breath away. Despite the rain and mist, which meant we didn't get to see the site in the context of the surrounding landscape, this felt like one of those places where things just fit together. I was with my mum, so decided it would be worthwhile taking the guided tour, so that she could have a better understanding of what we were looking at. As it turned out, I too ended up feeling like I understood this place better after spending an hour with the fabulous OPW guide. She was interested AND interesting, answering questions but also asking for our opinions and she skillfully avoided responding to the only other 2 people on our tour who seemed to be into biblical/creationist archaeology and kept referring to Noah a lot! Odd. Mind you, it was raining quite heavily. She led us on a (chronological) spiral journey through the various sites, explaining the relevance to the surrounding hills (which we couldn't really see) She also advised us which of the other sites (which weren't on the tour) we should visit and went into detail about which sites had been excavated and/or altered, so that we got a sense of how this landscape would've looked when littered with these amazing burial/ritual sites. If you come here with non-stoney folk in tow, I would recommend taking the tour for their sake as my mum was as giddy as a kipper by the end of it all - she said she could now understand why I am so enthusaistic about all things old and stoney and spent most of the next day asking me hundreds of questions. Some achievement! Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Vicster 11th August 2007ce

We visited Carrowmore on a drizzly day and missed much of the view of Sligo one gets from the complex, which was a shame. There are an impressive number of tombs here in a tiny area, and in various states of preservation. Being with non-megarak family members meant I couldn't help feeling self-conscious gleefully bounding around the place photographing every rock that stuck out of the ground. My family were interested at first, but after about an hour of being rained on, the advantages of walking around a field full of rocks were rapidly waning as far as they were concerned. We returned to the Visitor's Centre and I was granted a brief visit over the road to Tombs 1-7, with strict orders to return quickly or lose body-parts. Tomb 7 I will not forget in a hurry. As soon as I had settled myself in the chamber of the dolmen for a brief bit of megalithic contemplation, a bullock nosed right up to the entrance and stood sniffing the air in the tomb inches from my face. I don't mind admitting I can be a bit of a big girl's blouse when it comes to bullocks and on this occasion I froze and felt my heart begin to leap into my throat. He obviously could not see me and my smell was making him nervous. Looking back now it's obvious that one movement from me would have caused him to bolt, but at the time this didn't even occur to me. Eventually he got bored and walked off. I can't convey it in writing, but it was somehow an incredibly intense, and not entirely negative, experience. Being one of those druidy types I tend to like reading meaning into such encounters. The meaning I gleaned from this incident, distilled into a phrase, was "Fair enough. Have your little sit in here, but remember you actually belong elsewhere" Such overactive imaginings can make sense when one is sitting in a tomb, I always find. Walking away from Tomb 7 I was smiling at my unexpected experience, as the visit to Carrowmore had been very practical and down to earth up to that point. "Fair enough" I said to myself, with a last, very respectful, glance back at the tomb. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Sligo and Meath Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Cursuswalker 14th February 2004ce Edited 14th February 2004ce

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A list, taken from the Inventory of megalithic tombs of Co. Sligo: Carrowmore (P1) G661337 Carrowmore (P2) G661337 Carrowmore (P3) G661337 Carrowmore (P4) G662338 Carrowmore (P7) G663339 Carrowmore (P9) G665341 Carrowmore (W-M9a) G664343 Tobernaveen (P10) G665345 Carrowmore (P13) G664338 Carrowmore (P15) G664337 Carrowmore (P16) G664336 Carrowmore (P17) G665336 Carrowmore (P18) G665335 Carrowmore (P19) G665334 Carrowmore (P22) G666333 Carrowmore (P23) G666333 Carrowmore (P26) G665333 Carrowmore (P27) G665332 Carrowmore (P32) G665330 Carrowmore (P36) G663329 Graigue (P37) G663329 Carrowmore (P48) G661333 Carrowmore (P49) G660333 Carrowmore (P51) Listoghil G662334 Carrowmore (P52) G661335 Carrowmore (P54) G661335 Carrowmore (P56) G662335 Carrowmore (P57) G662335 Carrowmore (P58) G663336 Carrowmore (P59) G663336 Barnasrahy (P62) G659353 Barnasrahy (P63) G659353 Cloverhill or Knocknashammer G670335 Grange North G639344 Knocknarea South G626347 Knocknarea South – Maeve's Cairn G626346 Knocknarea South G626345 Knocknarea South G626340 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by ryaner 2nd October 2006ce Edited 2nd October 2006ce

Tomb 7 (Passage Grave) — Images (click to view fullsize)

Posted by GLADMAN 24th January 2011ce

Tomb 5 (Passage Grave) — Images

Posted by McGlen 16th September 2010ce

Listoghil - Tomb 51 (Chambered Cairn) — Images

Posted by McGlen 16th September 2010ce

Tomb 7 (Passage Grave) — Images

Posted by McGlen 16th September 2010ce