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Court cairns are scattered densely across this area of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Thirty percent of all Irish neolithic monuments are court cairns. [1] The court cairn at Creevykeel in County Sligo was the first court cairn to be excavated in Ireland by archaeologists from Harvard University in 1935. They determined that the Neolithic era in ...
Philip Cairns (born 1 September 1973) is an Irish child who disappeared while walking back to school in South Dublin from his home in Ballyroan on 23 October 1986. A large-scale investigation was carried out, but no trace of Cairns has ever been found. [1] [2] His disappearance is now treated as a high-profile child murder case. [3]
Poulnabrone dolmen is an example of a portal tomb in the west of Ireland. Megalithic monuments in Ireland typically represent one of several types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs. [1] [2] The remains of over 1,000 such megalithic tombs have been recorded around Ireland. [3]
The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea. A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]). [1] Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes.
This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).
Carns Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland. [1] [2] Location. Carns Cairn is located in Carns Forest between Sligo town and Lough Gill.
Knocknarea (/ n ɒ k n ə ˈ r eɪ /; Irish: Cnoc na Riabh) [2] is a large prominent hill west of Sligo town in County Sligo, Ireland, with a height of 327 metres (1,073 ft).). Knocknarea is visually striking as it has steep limestone cliffs and stands on the Cúil Irra peninsula overlooking the Atla
A map of Carrowmore by W. G. Wood-Martin in his article The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland (1886).. 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.