Looking north-east from Carrowkeel across Doonaveeragh Village plateau and Lough Arrow.

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Doonaveeragh Hut Sites The largest and oldest known prehistoric village in Ireland can be found on the flat plateau of Doonaveeragh Mountain on the east side of Carrowkeel and overlooking Lough Arrow in County Sligo. There are amazing views of the mountain and village from the edge of the escarpment to the east of Cairns G and H at Carrowkeel. Doonaveeragh is a glacier-scraped Mountain with a spectacular rift valley seperating it from Carrowkeel Mountain. The Mountain is shaped like a giant ship with Cairns O and P on the highest points, and the village sited on the flat limestone plateau to the north (above). The whole Mountain points towards Knocknarea in the distance. Looking in the door of a Doonaveeragh hut. The valley between Doonaveeragh and Carrowkeel Mountain is the strip of land which gives the collection of megaliths it's name: Carrowkeel - The Narrow Quarter, and is probably relatively modern. The valley is also called the Devil's Gap or Bite - especially when viewed from the Yellow Pass on the old road over the Curliew Mountains. The whole range comprising Carrowkeel and Kesh Corran is called the Bricklieve Mountains, which is Breac Sliabh, The Speckled Mountain in Irish, and undoubtedly referrs to the former quartz covered appearence of some of the cairns.