Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb
Cairn K Bricklieve
Neolithic (3300–3000 BCE)·Carrowkeel-Keshcorran group·🇮🇪 County Sligo, Bricklieve Mountains, Ireland
About
About Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb
Bricklieve Cairn K excavated by Macalister 1911, with cremations, bone pins and Carrowkeel Ware, views to Kesh above. Recorded context — Period: Neolithic (3300–3000 BCE); Culture: Carrowkeel-Keshcorran group; Field status: excavated; Materials: limestone; Condition: preserved.
Why it mattersKey Carrowkeel-Keshcorran group megalithic with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Collapse cause
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3300 BCE
- Period
- Neolithic (3300–3000 BCE)
- Culture
- Carrowkeel-Keshcorran group
- Purpose
- Mountain-top passage tomb — 14 cairns on Bricklieves with quartz and roof-box
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1894
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 200 CE major extension
Major expansion / refurbishment at Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb
c. 3300 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb
2005 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb
On the ground
Structures & features
54.0590° N · 8.3770° W · 310 m · 3 mapped features
- Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb — Principal Standing Stonestanding stonestanding stone at Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb — outlier feature54.0575° N · 8.3777° W
- Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb — Chamber Annex 2chamberchamber at Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb — primary structure54.0593° N · 8.3757° W
- Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb — Cairn Annex 3cairncairn at Carrowkeel — Cairn K Passage Tomb — primary structure54.0604° N · 8.3784° W
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