For #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday Another view of Carrowkeel Cairn H in the Bricklieve Mountains, Sligo, Ireland
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October 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM
For #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday Another view of Carrowkeel Cairn H in the Bricklieve Mountains, Sligo, Ireland
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For #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday Carrowkeel megalithic complex on the summits of the Bricklieve Mountains - Carrowkeel Cairn H
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October 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM
For #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday Carrowkeel megalithic complex on the summits of the Bricklieve Mountains - Carrowkeel Cairn H
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The grant provides funding for non-destructive archaeological research into the archaeology of the Brú na Bóinne and Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Properties and the Tentative List sites.
📸: Group at Cairn E Carrowkeel by Padraig Meehan.
📸: Group at Cairn E Carrowkeel by Padraig Meehan.
October 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The grant provides funding for non-destructive archaeological research into the archaeology of the Brú na Bóinne and Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Properties and the Tentative List sites.
📸: Group at Cairn E Carrowkeel by Padraig Meehan.
📸: Group at Cairn E Carrowkeel by Padraig Meehan.
My wife and I went on a trip to Ireland to see some of their prehistoric stuff; they have loads! Too many highlights but here's one - Carrowkeel Cemetary
September 26, 2026 at 5:54 PM
My wife and I went on a trip to Ireland to see some of their prehistoric stuff; they have loads! Too many highlights but here's one - Carrowkeel Cemetary
Same as when Carrowkeel was hit with a spate of vandalism a couple of years ago. I think the key is making these sites look cared for - interpretation panels, comprehensive online information, education programmes...
September 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Same as when Carrowkeel was hit with a spate of vandalism a couple of years ago. I think the key is making these sites look cared for - interpretation panels, comprehensive online information, education programmes...
Some more superb flowers seen in West Ireland, starting with Grass of Parnassus, below the Carrowkeel Neolithic hill, Mayo #wildflowerhour
August 30, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Some more superb flowers seen in West Ireland, starting with Grass of Parnassus, below the Carrowkeel Neolithic hill, Mayo #wildflowerhour
Oh very much agree! I love kicking tyres (especially my own!)
I do hope that projects like this, the recent work on Carrowkeel etc, really help to build the case for creating a purpose-built archaeological archive and storage facility.
I do hope that projects like this, the recent work on Carrowkeel etc, really help to build the case for creating a purpose-built archaeological archive and storage facility.
August 18, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Oh very much agree! I love kicking tyres (especially my own!)
I do hope that projects like this, the recent work on Carrowkeel etc, really help to build the case for creating a purpose-built archaeological archive and storage facility.
I do hope that projects like this, the recent work on Carrowkeel etc, really help to build the case for creating a purpose-built archaeological archive and storage facility.
But if you’re interested in those sites, I HIGHLY recommend a further trip to Carrowkeel & Carrowmore, near Sligo. Very cool AND much less crowded.
October 5, 2024 at 12:32 PM
But if you’re interested in those sites, I HIGHLY recommend a further trip to Carrowkeel & Carrowmore, near Sligo. Very cool AND much less crowded.
There’s some evidence, iirc, that the society became less egalitarian over time (the folks at Carrowkeel & Carrowmore said… probably a decade ago? That the society that built that stuff looked less stratified than the ppl who built Newgrange… 400yrs is a long time!!)
July 27, 2024 at 10:18 PM
There’s some evidence, iirc, that the society became less egalitarian over time (the folks at Carrowkeel & Carrowmore said… probably a decade ago? That the society that built that stuff looked less stratified than the ppl who built Newgrange… 400yrs is a long time!!)
They were also fairly closely related to ppl interred at another Neolithic site, Carrowkeel, near Sligo, near the NW coast of Ireland, hundreds of miles away, and built 400yrs earlier. Carrowkeel consists of many passage mounds on a high ridge, but the mounds are smaller than at Brú na Bóinne,
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July 27, 2024 at 9:44 PM
They were also fairly closely related to ppl interred at another Neolithic site, Carrowkeel, near Sligo, near the NW coast of Ireland, hundreds of miles away, and built 400yrs earlier. Carrowkeel consists of many passage mounds on a high ridge, but the mounds are smaller than at Brú na Bóinne,
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via tour bus, but they definitely require advance arrangements & get very crowded in summer. If you have a car, try Loughcrew Cairns near Dublin… OR if you can really get out of town, try driving towards Sligo & check out Carrowkeel & Carrowmore & Queen Maeve’s tomb. Also, Rathcroghan near Tulsk. 4/
June 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM
via tour bus, but they definitely require advance arrangements & get very crowded in summer. If you have a car, try Loughcrew Cairns near Dublin… OR if you can really get out of town, try driving towards Sligo & check out Carrowkeel & Carrowmore & Queen Maeve’s tomb. Also, Rathcroghan near Tulsk. 4/
Fair! Tho Carrowmore isn’t firmly determined to have an astronomical alignment (partly due to poor excavation practices—it isn’t pristine either! Carrowkeel is closer to unretouched, I think? And similar vintage to Carrowmore).
May 8, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Fair! Tho Carrowmore isn’t firmly determined to have an astronomical alignment (partly due to poor excavation practices—it isn’t pristine either! Carrowkeel is closer to unretouched, I think? And similar vintage to Carrowmore).
This is exactly how I like to organise my skeleton closet (Carrowkeel, Co Sligo)
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is exactly how I like to organise my skeleton closet (Carrowkeel, Co Sligo)
Shockingly sad and pointless. Probably just thoughtless kids, having no idea of the damage they're doing.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023...
‘Shocking’ vandalism of megalithic tomb site in Co Sligo being investigated
OPW says extensive graffiti and apparent collapse of entrance stones at Carrowkeel being ‘treated very seriously’
www.irishtimes.com
October 16, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Shockingly sad and pointless. Probably just thoughtless kids, having no idea of the damage they're doing.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023...
#Solstice #SummerSolstice
Carrowkeel Cairn G with its lightbox above the entrance aligns with sunset on the summer solstice. Happy Summer Solstice
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Carrowkeel Cairn G with its lightbox above the entrance aligns with sunset on the summer solstice. Happy Summer Solstice
#BlueSkyArtShow #Narrow #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Sligo
June 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#Solstice #SummerSolstice
Carrowkeel Cairn G with its lightbox above the entrance aligns with sunset on the summer solstice. Happy Summer Solstice
#BlueSkyArtShow #Narrow #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Sligo
Carrowkeel Cairn G with its lightbox above the entrance aligns with sunset on the summer solstice. Happy Summer Solstice
#BlueSkyArtShow #Narrow #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Sligo
Dublin: Books Upstairs + Bog Bodies at the Archaeology Museum + Glendalough
Galway: Charlie Byrne's + Connemara near Clifden
Sligo: M. Quirke Woodcarving + Carrowkeel Passage Tombs
Killarney: Muckross Abbey + Gap of Dunloe
If you do the Ring of Kerry, the area around Cahersiveen is stellar.
Galway: Charlie Byrne's + Connemara near Clifden
Sligo: M. Quirke Woodcarving + Carrowkeel Passage Tombs
Killarney: Muckross Abbey + Gap of Dunloe
If you do the Ring of Kerry, the area around Cahersiveen is stellar.
July 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Dublin: Books Upstairs + Bog Bodies at the Archaeology Museum + Glendalough
Galway: Charlie Byrne's + Connemara near Clifden
Sligo: M. Quirke Woodcarving + Carrowkeel Passage Tombs
Killarney: Muckross Abbey + Gap of Dunloe
If you do the Ring of Kerry, the area around Cahersiveen is stellar.
Galway: Charlie Byrne's + Connemara near Clifden
Sligo: M. Quirke Woodcarving + Carrowkeel Passage Tombs
Killarney: Muckross Abbey + Gap of Dunloe
If you do the Ring of Kerry, the area around Cahersiveen is stellar.
Cyclist (50s) dies following collision in Mayo
The collision occurred shortly after 9pm outside Ballinrobe on the N84 at Carrowkeel on Wednesday.
The collision occurred shortly after 9pm outside Ballinrobe on the N84 at Carrowkeel on Wednesday.
Cyclist (50s) dies following collision in Mayo
The collision occurred shortly after 9pm outside Ballinrobe on the N84 at Carrowkeel on Wednesday.
www.irishexaminer.com
July 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Cyclist (50s) dies following collision in Mayo
The collision occurred shortly after 9pm outside Ballinrobe on the N84 at Carrowkeel on Wednesday.
The collision occurred shortly after 9pm outside Ballinrobe on the N84 at Carrowkeel on Wednesday.
Carrowkeel.
📸 13 oct. 2023
📸 13 oct. 2023
October 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Carrowkeel.
📸 13 oct. 2023
📸 13 oct. 2023
Another ink drawing with watercolour of Carrowkeel monuments atop the hills, this time from the distance with Keshcorran to the right…
#sligo
#sligo
May 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another ink drawing with watercolour of Carrowkeel monuments atop the hills, this time from the distance with Keshcorran to the right…
#sligo
#sligo
The so called Leprechaun house at Carrowkeel, Sligo is a ruined Neolithic tomb. Sliced by a field boundary, some of its material is used in the stone walls… I was inspired by this to come out of “drawing retirement” (1/2) 🧵
May 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The so called Leprechaun house at Carrowkeel, Sligo is a ruined Neolithic tomb. Sliced by a field boundary, some of its material is used in the stone walls… I was inspired by this to come out of “drawing retirement” (1/2) 🧵
The day after ‘Brand Ireland’ has been showcased and celebrated across the world, a report like this emerges showing how our government is failing to protect precious Irish heritage sites
www.thejournal.ie/carrowkeel-t...
www.thejournal.ie/carrowkeel-t...
March 18, 2024 at 8:29 AM
The day after ‘Brand Ireland’ has been showcased and celebrated across the world, a report like this emerges showing how our government is failing to protect precious Irish heritage sites
www.thejournal.ie/carrowkeel-t...
www.thejournal.ie/carrowkeel-t...
Massive brown sign post at Castlebaldwin on the new N4 dual carriageway saying CARROWKEEL which directs to a site with plenty of car park, little interpretation and no protection.
October 15, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Massive brown sign post at Castlebaldwin on the new N4 dual carriageway saying CARROWKEEL which directs to a site with plenty of car park, little interpretation and no protection.