Carrowkeel — Cairns C and D

Nearest town:
Ballymote (9km W)
OS reference:
G748120
OS sheet:
25
Latitude:
54° 3' 23.3 N
Longitude:
8° 23' 5.45 W
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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Standing stone/possible kerbstone to the east of Cairn D.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Over Cairn D towards F in the distance to the left and Keshcorran to the right.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Magnificent bogland foliage in front of Cairn D in Carrowkeel.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Rubble strewn floor of the subsidiary chamber at Cairn C.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

I love the solidity of the subsidiary chamber roofstone with its covering of peat.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Secondary chamber under a large roofstone on the southern side of Cairn C.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Cairn C split between Carrowkeel to the left and Cloghoge Lower to the right.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

The passage of Cairn C is aligned onto the cairn on Keshcorran mountain away to the West-North-West.

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ryaner Aug 3, 2022
Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

The northern side of Cairn C in Cloghoge Lower townland.

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Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by costaexpress

Cairn D, leading to C. They say Ireland is a magical place, it certainly felt that way up here

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costaexpress May 13, 2017
Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by costaexpress

Cairn C guarded by a solitary wind resistant tree. Once again worth a detour off the main track, however, watch out for the sink hole.

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costaexpress May 13, 2017
Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Chamber, or recess, to the left, passage to the right, with the cairn on Kesh Corran visible in the distance

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ryaner
ryaner Nov 13, 2006
Image of Carrowkeel – Cairns C and D (Passage Grave) by greywether

Cairn C

Those nice people who established townland boundaries decided that one should go through Cairn C – hence the fence.

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greywether Dec 31, 2003

Articles

Carrowkeel — Cairns C and D

greywether
greywether Dec 31, 2003

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.

Sites within 20km of Carrowkeel — Cairns C and D

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