A
ring barrow. This example is not from Carrowmore, but in fact is in Co
Limerick. |
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Site 12 - Carrowmore This site, along with Site 11A, is a ring barrow, and dates from the Bronze age. Ring barrows are basically a small mound - the barrow - surrounded by an earthen ring. The mound here measures 5.5, and the ring 17 meters in diameter. Petrie noted some kind of a stone box or cist at the centre. Borlase: - No. 12. Situated near the road, and E.N.E. of 12 (circle with cist or small dolmen). "This circle is composed of small stones mixed with earth, and is 40 feet in diameter. There is a stone sepulchre in the centre, but no cromleac." - Petrie. This implies that Petrie considered this as a transitional monument, neither a dolmen-cairn nor a cairn with cists. "The whole is now so covered with so that it might pass unnoticed but for Petrie's description of it." - W. M. The plan of this monument shows three concentric circles of small contiguous stones, built with the regularity of a well-built stone fence, the outermost ring facing outwards, the two inner ones inwards. No. 12A. "Not far off No. 12, and lying between it and the "Caltragh" (No. 60) (dolmen-circle). "Seemingly the traces of another circle." - W. M. |
The
Speckled Stone, or Tobernaveen, a large limestone flag with a hole,
is found beside a well not far to the north of Site 12. |
