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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: CreevykeelCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Sligo Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Town: Mullaghmore Nearest Village: Cliffony
Map Ref: G7192054549
Discovery Map Number: D16
Latitude: 54.438708N Longitude: 8.433503W
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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kflueck visited on 7th Apr 2015 As allways at acient sites, there must be a well around. And indeed there is a well. Unfortunately not upkept and in very bad stage.
Facing Carowkeel in front of you, then next to the car park on the left side, there is the well. You find a small stone entrance towards the well. It is all very wet, garbage laying around. It is sad to see how we have lost to estimated water, coming from the earth.
jeffrep visited on 27th Apr 2009 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5
X-Ice visited on 25th Aug 1982 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Dubpunk visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
kflueck visited As always at ancient sites, there must be a well around. And indeed there is a well. Unfortunately not upkept and in very bad stage.
Facing Carowkeel in front of you, then next to the car park on the left side, there is the well. You find a small stone entrance towards the well. It is all very wet, garbage lie around. It is sad to see how we have lost to estimated water, coming from the earth.
DrewParsons paulcall davidmorgan have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.67
It is contained in a wedge-shaped cairn which was originally nearly 60metres long. The broad end faces roughly E, and from it a short passage leads into a large oval court (with somedry-walling) about 15 metres long. This in turn leads into a 2-chambered gallery with vestiges of corbelling in the rear chamber. Only those orthostats nearest the entrance to the gallery are of megalithic proportions, some of them 1.8 metres high.
Behind the gallery are the remains of 3 single-chambered subsidiary tombs, apparently built at the same time as the rest of the monument. On the S side the cairn is double. On the NW part of the court are the remains of a much later kiln, and evidence of iron-smelting was found there when the tomb was excavated.
~ 3.2 km SW in Cartronplank, behind a house about 100 metres E of the road from Cliffony to Drumcliff is “Tombavannor” an overgrown court-tomb resembling those at Shalwy and Croaghbeg in Donegal, with a massively-constructed gallery of 2 chambers, good entry-jambs and a very large gabled backstone some 2 metres high. Only a few stones of the court, decreasing in height from the entrance, survive amongst the vegetation.
~ 12.8 kms SSW in Drumcliff, on the other side of the road to the 12th century cross and Yeats’ grave (“-horseman, pass by!”), 200 metres W of the bridge over the Owney river, 100 metres downstream from the ‘Yeats Tavern’, and near the N bank beside a grove of cherry-trees, is a large wedge-tomb with trees growing through it, whose main chamber is almost 7metres long, over which one (slipped) capstone survives. There is an antechamber or portico and a good façade of stones about one metre high.
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