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Photo Pages: Creevykeel - Court Tomb in Ireland (Southern) in Co. Sligo
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 13 October 2002 Page Views: 4547
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 Site Name: Creevykeel Country: Ireland (Southern) County: Co. Sligo Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Town: Mullaghmore Townland (Nearest Village): Cliffony
Map Ref: G721546
Discovery Map Number: D16
Latitude: 54.439176N Longitude: 8.430733W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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   Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
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.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
Subsidiary Chamber, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
Back Slab of the Rear Chamber Viewed Through Jamb Stones, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
View into Gallery, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo , Ireland.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
Inner Face of the Gallery Entrance, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
Remains of an Early Christian Kiln in the Court, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
View from Court of Gallery Entrance, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
 Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep
Entrance to Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
 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.
 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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