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Carrowkeel - Cairns C and D

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<b>Carrowkeel - Cairns C and D</b>Posted by ryanerImage © ryaner
Nearest Town:Ballymote (9km WNW)
OS Ref (IE):   G748120 / Sheet: 25
Latitude:54° 3' 23.3" N
Longitude:   8° 23' 5.45" W

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These two cairns lie 50m apart in the hills to the N of the access road to the Carrowkeel cemetery about 0.6 km W of cairn G.

Both are ruined. The 1911 excavations suggest that C had the cruciform chamber seen at other Carrowkeel sites and D had traces of a passage leading to a cist within the cairn.
greywether Posted by greywether
31st December 2003ce
Edited 31st December 2003ce