<< Our Photo Pages >> Carrowmore 5. - Passage Grave in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Sligo
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carrowmore 5.Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Sligo Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Sligo
Map Ref: G662338
Latitude: 54.251969N Longitude: 8.5193W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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Tomb 5 it has a capstone supported by five supporting stones.
The Carrowmore Passage Tomb Cemetery is located two miles southwest of Sligo Town in County Sligo. Carrowmore is the site of a prehistoric ritual landscape dated to between 4300 and 3500 BCE. on the Knocknarea Peninsula in County Sligo. It is the largest and one of the four major passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland and is spread out over 1.5 square mile area.
The tombs are known by numbers assigned them by George Petrie in an 1837 report for the Ordnance Survey. To see location of this and other numbered tombs, see the Carrowmore Cemetery map uploaded to the generic Megalithic Portal Carrowmore page at http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=40. Or visit the following webpage for a clickable map of all the existing tombs: http://www.carrowkeel.com/sites/carrowmore/carrowmore2.html
The following indivdual Carrowmore tomb pages on the Megalithic Portal have photos (as of August 12, 2009): 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 48, 51, 52, 52A, 54, 55, and 57.
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