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Carrowmore Tomb 27 Passage Tomb
 

County

Sligo

Coordinates

N 54° 14' 49.6"   W 008° 30' 52.2"

Nearest town

Sligo

Grid Ref.

G 66510 33261

Map No.

25

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

55

Date of visit

Wednesday 4 June 2014

GPS Accuracy (m)

3
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Seen from a distance.


This tomb is outside the area of the main group of tombs near the visitors' centre and is in a private field beside the road.

Undoubtedly this tomb is the most beautiful of all those outside the main area.
On a low artificial flat mound, with a steep slope on its west side, there are 37 stones that form the kerb for the cairn that once covered the cross-shaped passage tomb in the centre of the circle. No other tomb in the complex at Carrowmore has a similar feature. The passage , which is aligned to northwest (315°) nearly towards the Knocknarea, is 1.80 metres long and 65 centimetres wide. The chamber at the end of the passage is aligned to southeast (135°) and is 1 metre long and 90 centimetres wide. Another chamber is to northeast (60°) and is 1 metre long and 1.40 metres wide, but several stones have been displaced. The third chamber is aligned to southwest (225°) and 1.35 metres long and 70 centimetres wide. Around the passage tomb there's a second inner circle, made with smaller stones. The outer diameter along the east-west axis is of 15 metres.
The excavations revealed the presence of many cremated and unburned bones, along with teeth, fragments of ivory, pottery and a flint knife. The radiocarbon analyses dated this site as old as 3900 BC.

The Tomb 26 is about 75 metres to the northeast (75°) in the same field.


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