Visiting Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, County Sligo, Ireland
The 7,000 Year Old Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery in Ancient Ireland
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IT Sligo Excavation at Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, May-June 2019
During May and June 2019, IT Sligo archaeologists Dr Marion Dowd and Dr James Bonsall ran a Training Excavation for our Applied Archaeology 1st year, 2nd year and 3rd year students. The Training Excavation is a mandatory module for our 1st year students, and they are taught how to excavate and record archaeological features. This year the excavation occurred in the heart of the Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, just a 5 minute drive from our campus in Sligo, Ireland. The excavation occurred over a monument previously regarded as a Barrow. In this video, Dr Marion Dowd sums up the excavation and our preliminary findings as we close the trench up and consider the implications for future research at Carrowmore.
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Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery - Ireland
A short video of the mysterious Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery located near Sligo Ireland. There are more than 20 ancient tombs, including stone rings and portal tombs. A truely mystical area of Ireland that is over 5,000 years old!
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Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, Ireland - A Look Inside a 5,000-Year-Old Tomb
Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, located in the south of County Sligo, is one of the four largest passage tomb complexes in Ireland. Dating back around 5,000-6,000 years, the cairns remain as an impressive legacy of the rich Neolithic culture that was active in the region at the time. Here, we take a look inside one of the best preserved and most significant of the cairns – Cairn G.
Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery
Carrowmore, in County Sligo, is the largest cemetery of megalithic tombs in Ireland and is also among the country's oldest, with monuments ranging from five thousand to five thousand eight hundred years old. Archaeologists have recorded over 60 tombs of which 30 are visible. At the site there have been found the charred bones of human bones as well as many material artifacts that can be seen at the visitors center and at museums but the cairns here have no artwork as found at sites like New Grange, Loughcrew and the other Boyne valley monuments.There is no evidence of stone cairns having covered the dolmens at Carrowmore; they appear to have been free-standing much as they are see them today. At least those stones that remain. The whole cemetery is spread over an area of about 1,000 meters by 600 meters. Within this undulating landscape the monuments are found in all types of locations… on the crests of hills on slopes and on flat low ground.
The area is at the center of the Cuil Irra peninsula surrounded by the sea and mountains… Experts believe that the place was chosen as the sacred and religious center for the people. And indeed standing at Carrowmore you feel in a sacred space. Historical information courtesy of the OPW Visitors Center.
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Carrowmore Megalithic Ancient Tombs Sligo
A wee dander around all the tombs and ancient burial chambers well worth a visit
Megalithic Carrowmore cemetery in Sligo
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Carrowkeel passage graves, County Sligo, Ireland
Watch our video of the walk up to the Carrowkeel megalithic tombs, in County Sligo, Ireland.
Listoghil Picture of Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, Sligo
Listoghil Picture of Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, Sligo
Listoghil is tomb 51. It is the only tomb here to have a cairn covering it. Its excavation has thrown up some serious questions which are very interesting.The carin has a kerb made up of 107 stones and is around 32m in diameter. This kerb could be earlier than the burial chamber. The chamber was erected on the highest and most central spot on the plateau. Most of the other tombs seem to point towards this spot, giving the location a massive significance. This does not mean that the tomb was the focus though, as this is much newer than the original activity on this spot.Beneath the tomb is a bed of clay/morraine that was set into a large, round pit purposely dug to hold the substance. This seems to have been used as a funeral pyre location on many occacions.The tomb, to me, seems to be a later structure, perhaps erected by an invading force to claim and defile the previous inhabitants sacred centre. When I stated this I was told that one possible translation of Listoghil is 'The Fort of the Overthrow'.The chamber is very different to anything else at Carrowmore. It seems to be more of a proto-wedge-tomb than anything else. Eight large stones form the walls and a large slab covers the entire area. A few odd boulders under the cairn were interpreted by the excavators as possible signs of an earlier structure.It is not possible to get to the tomb itself now, but a viewing gallery has been erected so that you can look down onto it. It is one of the only carved structures in Sligo, with a wave-like motif on the front edge of the capstone and an 'Om'-like carving on the inside of the doorstone.
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Carrowmore tombs, Ireland
Carrowmore, Ireland 2003 - a passage tomb within a boulder circle, megalithic cemetery
Carrowmore, County Sligo (Irish: An Cheathrú Mhór, meaning Great Quarter) is one of the four major passage tomb complexes in Ireland. It is located at the geographical centre of the Cúil Irra peninsula in County Sligo and 3 km west of Sligo town.
This is one of the largest (in terms of number of monuments) complexes of megalithic tombs in Ireland and is also among the oldest used passage tombs, the earliest depositions approximately 3700 BC.
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Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery
Carrowmore, County Sligo (Irish: An Cheathrú Mhór, meaning Great Quarter) is one of the four major passage tomb complexes in Ireland. It is located at the geographical centre of the Cúil Irra peninsula in County Sligo and 3 km west of Sligo town.
This is one of the largest (in terms of number of monuments) complexes of megalithic tombs in Ireland and is also among the oldest used passage tombs, the earliest depositions approximately 3700 BC.
Finding Carrowmore: Approaching from the south (N4) after Collooney roundabout, exit Strandhill/Airport. Follow route Strandhill (R292). Take the right exit at Ransboro roundabout, centre is 1 km further on, on the right. Approaching from the north (N15), cross Hughes Bridge in Sligo town, and at the 5th set of traffic lights after the bridge turn right onto Church Hill. After 2 km take a left fork, signed Carrowmore. The centre is located 1 km from here, on the left.
Placed on a small plateau at an altitude of between 36.5 and 59 meters above sea level Carrowmore is the focal point of a prehistoric ritual landscape which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west with the great cairn of Miosgán Médhbh on top. To the east is Carns Hill with two large cairns overlooking Lough Gill, and along the eastern boundary of the peninsula the Ballygawley Mountains have four passage tombs at their peaks.[1]
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30 monuments survive in Carrowmore today. There may have been more monuments in the complex originally, but some fell victim to quarrying and field clearance during the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. The complex is about one kilometre north-south and 600 meters east-west. Most of the sites are satellite tombs which surround the largest monument, placed on the high point of the plateau, the cairn (now restored) called Listoghil.
Because of the clustering of the monuments, certain morphological features presented by the tombs, and the assemblage of material found within some of the monuments Carrowmore – like Newgrange, Loughcrew and Carrowkeel – is classified by archaeologists as being part of the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition. However, in some respects the Carrowmore sites are atypical passage tombs. For example, none of the tombs have lintel-covered, tunnel-like, passages that are a feature of most Irish passage tombs, and only one site (Tomb 51, Listoghil) possesses a cairn.
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Excavation at Carrowmore - Day 1 (27/05/2019)
Applied Archaeology students Liam and Jasmine interview the excavation crew. Within a few moments of commencing the excavation, first year student Leo has found the base of a glass bottle.
Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery - 5/30/2017
We were lucky enough to step back through time at our visit to Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery in County Sligo, Ireland.
Carrowmore is one of the four major passage tomb complexes in Ireland (and is within view of one of the others in Queen Maeve's Grave, piled high on nearby Knocknarea). This location was chosen due to being the geographical center of the the Cúil Irra peninsula in County Sligo.
Many of the original stones are still in place, including a massive monument in the middle of the area, to which all of the other tombs are pointed in respect.
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Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, Ireland
Carrowkeel is a Neolithic passage tomb cemetery in the south of County Sligo, near Boyle, County Roscommon. Tombs are dated for a period between 3400 and 3100 BC. So that they predate the Pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau by 500–800 years. Carrowkeel is one of the big four passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland (the other three are Brú na Bóinne, Loughcrew, and Carrowmore). - (by Wikipedia)
The Mysterious Engravings of Ireland’s 5,000 Year Old Megalithic Tomb
The Mysterious Engravings of Ireland’s 5,000 Year Old Megalithic Tomb
For thousands of years they have stood, high on the windswept hills, with views of a gentle green landscape rolling away on all sides. Before the first pyramids were even built in Egypt, this wild and rugged land was home to Neolithic people who carved strange patterns into the stones. And yet it is the mystery that enshrouds this tomb site in Loughcrew, in Ireland’s County Meath, that is the real secret to its appeal.
There are more than 30 cairns (or stone monuments) and mounds scattered around the two hills of Carnbane West and Carnbane East at Loughcrew – known locally as “Slieve na Calliagh”, or Hill of the Witch. Legends say the cairns were created by a giant hag who strode the hills holding stones in her apron, with the stones she dropped becoming the rock monuments of today.
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