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<< Our Photo Pages >> Creevykeel - Court Tomb in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Sligo

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 13 October 2002  Page Views: 16634

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Creevykeel
Country: 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
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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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

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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

Creevykeel
Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : Huge Lintel Stone at Gallery Entrance, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This very fine, excavated tomb lies immediately E of the noisy and busy main road from Sligo to Bundoran, a few metres N of Creevykeel Crossroads in Co. Sligo.

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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Creevykeel submitted by PaulH : View from the entrance, giving some idea of overall shape. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Creevykeel submitted by davidmorgan : The view from the east end of the tomb. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Creevykeel submitted by paulcall : A view of the larger stones at the western end of the court, with the small entrance into the gallery beyond. The low circular structure is the kiln mentioned in Anthony Weir's description of the site. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Creevykeel submitted by Flickr : Creevykeel court tomb, County Sligo Image copyright: Erik's pictures, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Creevykeel submitted by Flickr (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Creevykeel submitted by Bladup : Creevykeel court tomb.

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Creevykeel submitted by Bladup

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Creevykeel submitted by davidmorgan

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Creevykeel submitted by davidmorgan : Looking through one of the entrances.

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Creevykeel submitted by DrewParsons : View across the court towards the lintelled entrance to the gallery.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : Inner Face of the Gallery Entrance, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by paulcall : A view of the entrance leading into the court. I would have loved to have seen this place in its heyday. (Scan of photo taken in 1997) (1 comment)

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Creevykeel submitted by DrewParsons : Supplications tied to a tree at the entrance to the site. September 2008. What on earth is this about?

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Creevykeel submitted by DrewParsons : Overview of the site

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Creevykeel submitted by DrewParsons : Looking back through to the court.

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Creevykeel submitted by DrewParsons : Close up of the lintelled entrance from the court to the gallery.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : Subsidiary Chamber, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : Back Slab of the Rear Chamber Viewed Through Jamb Stones, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : View into Gallery, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo , Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : Remains of an Early Christian Kiln in the Court, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : View from Court of Gallery Entrance, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep : Entrance to Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.

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Creevykeel submitted by paulcall : A view of the gallery and one of the subsidiary tombs on the left. (Scan of photo taken in 1997)

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Re: Creevykeel by Andy B on Monday, 07 May 2018
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National Monuments Service:
Class Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Townland CREEVYKEEL
SMR No. SL003-032----
Description See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) This court tomb is a national monument (No. 338) in state care. Date of upload: 9 January 2012

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Creevykeel Street View by Runemage on Sunday, 06 May 2018
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Car park is off the N15 main road, just before the crossroads to Ballintrillick on the left and Mullaghmore to the right.

Creevykeel is a short walk up the steps in the corner of the carpark and is signposted. It can just be seen in this image https://goo.gl/maps/SsBQvwR72qv
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Re: Creevykeel by kflueck on Saturday, 11 April 2015
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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.
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