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Site 11 - Carrowmore There is some confusion about the sites mentioned here. Site 11 was reduced to four stones by the time Petrie saw it. Site 11A is a ring barrow, with an outer diameter of 16 meters and an inner diameter of 7 meters. It dates from the Bronze age. Site 11B was also destroyed by the time Petrie recorded it. As you can imagine, the confusion with numbering makes keeping track of all these circles tough going! Borlase: - No. 11 (I). Situated S.W. of XIV (dolmen-circle). "Of this circle, four stones only now remain in their original position. The remainder, with the cromleac, were destroyed or removed by the peasant who holds the ground, about five years ago" - i.e. five years before 1837. No. 11 (2). Between XV and the road" (dolmen-circle). There are several very large stones here, which, with others that were blasted, formed, according to the peasantry, another circle." - P. N.B. - "Here the chain of circles towards the N. appears to have ended, and the next examined were those situated to the E. of the road from Sligo. towards the S." - P. No. 11A. About 100 yards to the N.E. of XIV (dolmen-circle and cairn) "Unnoticed by Petrie. It is about 55 feet in diameter, and appears to have consisted of two concentric circles. Only two of the stones remain in situ. The diameter of the inner circle is 23 feet. The space between the circles is hollowed. Near these remains, towards the centre of the field is a small cairn, possibly formed in clearing the field."--W. M.