<< Our Photo Pages >> Carrowcrom - Wedge Tomb in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Mayo
Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 13 October 2002 Page Views: 7215
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: CarrowcromCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 5.011 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Mayo Type: Wedge Tomb
Nearest Town: Ballina Nearest Village: Bunnyconnellan
Discovery Map Number: D24
Latitude: 54.089975N Longitude: 9.047891W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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7.2 km ESE of Ballina and 4.8 km NNE of Attymas, in a field to the left a track leading to Brohly Lough from a by-road from Bunnyconnellan to Beaufield, this accessible tomb is very well preserved. It retains its single capstone (almost 2 metres long) and most of its cairn. The taller, front (SW) end of the tomb has a façade of 4 well-matched orthostats 3.7 metres long, and, at the entrance, what seems to be a sill-stone. Much of the outer-walling of the gallery is visible especially at the E side. There is no portico. The inside of the gallery has some dry-stone walling above and between the orthostats.
~ 6.5 km NE in Carrowleagh is a hard-to-find and almost-intact court-tomb, about 800 metres ENE of an untarred by-road about 400 metres S of the Owencam river. Local guidance is essential, for, covered in vegetation and still embedded in peat, it is indistinguishable from the landscape. Two chambers of the gallery are accessible, covered by two very large overlapping roofstones which are supported on up to 3 tiers of corbelling packed with small stones. The corbels in turn rest on 4 orthostats on the N side and 3 on the S side. The interior of this sepulchre is most impressively constructed and shows some of the detail missing from most surviving tombs of this kind.
~ 1500 metres NW of the court-tomb, and 500 metres N of the Owencam river is a wedge-tomb, also embedded in peat and even harder to locate. Portico, double-walling and 2 roofstones survive. As with the court-tomb, the chinkless chamber, mostly surrounded by peat gives a rare impression of the snugness of these homes for the dead.
~ 8 km NW is a portal-tomb on the edge of Ballina town, beside a by-road running SW towards Lough Conn.
Note: Photo © Anthony Weir
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