Carrowmore

Carrowmore is a large group of megalithic monuments on the Coolera Peninsula to the west of Sligo [1]. They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic [1]. Placed on a small plateau at an altitude of between 36.5 and 59 metres above sea level Carrowmore is the focal point of a prehistoric ritual landscape which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west with the great cairn of Miosgán Médhbh on top [1]. Most of the sites are "satellite tombs" which surround the largest monument, placed on the high point of the plateau, the cairn called Listoghil [1]. Listoghil, which was erected c. 3500 BC, is 34 metres in diameter and has a distinctive box-like chamber [1]. A source critical review and 25 new radiocarbon dates demonstrated that the Carrowmore monuments are shown to have spanned the era circa 3750 BC to circa 3000 BC [1].