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Listoghil - Tomb 51 Chambered Cairn |
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Tombs 56 + 57 Passage Grave |
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Tombs 58 + 59 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 1 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 13 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 15 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 18 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 19 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 26 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 27 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 4 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 48 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 49 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 5 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 52 Burial Chamber |
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Tomb 53 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 54 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 55 Passage Grave |
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Tomb 7 Passage Grave |
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Archaeologists uncover megalithic monument thought to be unlike any found in Ireland to date More: https://jrnl.ie/4682855 |
Posted by ryaner14th June 2019ce |
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26/08/2019 – It was afternoon by the time we reached Carrowmore. I was tired. We had made the journey over Knocknarea and then walked the quiet roads to here. It was a welcome sight to see a coffee shop/van next to the visitors centre with a few outside tables and chairs. I needed a rest and a coffee (plus iced dough ring). Then with my power up, it was time to enter Carrowmore. There’s a nice few info rooms to walk through and you can get a map (and an audio guide if you want) to the site. The rain had started to fall now but nothing too bad. We made a slow walk round the grassy fields, tomb after tomb. The place is jampacked with them. Each with their own little character. You don’t get access to them all but the walk takes you past a good enough number. I think I read that 65 tomb monuments were noted in the 1800's but only about 30 survive today. The earliest dating from around 3700 BCE. No access to Site 7 at the moment which is a shame but you can still view it from afar. Site 51 is a bit mad. Great tomb hiding in a reconstruction cairn held in place with lots of wire. I wasn’t that keen but Mrs T liked it. I can’t remember how many tombs the walk takes you on, both sides of the road, maybe around the 15 mark. I liked the little ones the best like site 54. It was a great afternoon spent there and it really is a must see place. We left to make the slow walk back to Sligo. The roads are OK-ish to walk. A few fast cars, fat trucks and big tractors but nothing too bad, we survived to tell the tale. |
Posted by thelonious5th September 2019ce |
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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! |
Posted by Vicster11th August 2007ce |
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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
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Posted by Cursuswalker14th 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 |
Posted by ryaner 2nd October 2006ce Edited 2nd October 2006ce |
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The Sacred IslandThe Sacred Island provides among others a section for Carrowmore with a clickable map and extensive information for all tombs of the Carrowmore Complex |
Posted by Nucleus1st November 2017ce |
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Tomb 54 (Passage Grave) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by thelonious 5th September 2019ce |
Listoghil - Tomb 51 (Chambered Cairn) — Images |
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Posted by thelonious 5th September 2019ce |
Tombs 56 + 57 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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Posted by thelonious 5th September 2019ce |
Tomb 5 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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Tomb 27 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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Tomb 26 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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Tomb 15 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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Tomb 26 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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Tomb 52 (Burial Chamber) — Images |
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Posted by ryaner 3rd July 2019ce |
Tomb 53 (Passage Grave) — Images |
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