Dolmen 7 at Carrowmore. This monument has an intact stone circle and is considered to be the best preserved dolmen/circle. The large capstone balances on three points.
|
Site 47 - Carrowmore No. 47.
Situated immediately to the W. of No. 46 (dolmen-circle, and at least
6 others). "This circle is in part destroyed. About twenty stones
remain. In the same field to the W. there are a vast number of large stones
(the boundary wall is in great part composed of similar stones); but it
is impossible to trace, with any certainty, a circular arrangement among
them. It is certain, however, that within the memory of the present inhabitants
of the townland, the chain of circles was carried on without interruption
through the great field immediately to the N. They were destroyed by Mr.
Walshe, who got a lease of the land from Lord Erne, in 1793, to clear
the ground. The peasants who were employed in their destruction remember
six or more of them distinctly, and the stones of which they were composed
still remain partly in pits within the field, and partly in the surrounding
walls. In all these circles bones were found beneath the cromleacs. Towards
the N. of the field the series is again resumed." - Petrie. |
