Carrowmore 52.
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Site 52 - Carrowmore Borlase: - No. 52. Situated about 70 paces to the N.W. of the cairn called Listoghil (dolmen-circle). "This, which was a large circle, has been recently (in 1837) destroyed for the materials which it afforded to build the wall connecting the field boundary in that direction with the road. The cromleac, however, which is a very large and apparently double one, still remains, but is in great part buried in stones collected to clear the adjacent fields." - Petrie. The cromleac, which is a fine specimen, remains. Its porch-like entrance is very remarkable. Possibly it may have been a double or figure-of-8 dolmen." - Wood-Martin. The dolmen measures 4 feet 6 ins. in height. Its long axis is N.W. and S.E. The roofing-stone, which measures 5 feet 8 ins. by 5 feet, and is in the centre about 2 feet 6 ins. thick, rests on 4 stones, 2 on either side. The stone at the N.W. end is missing; and the antechamber, porch, or continuation at the S.E. end is formed by 2 uncovered stones. The gap or slit connecting this with the interior of the dolmen is only 6 inches wide. "In
this cist there were six hundred and fifteen fragments of bones, all small,
greyish-white, ashen-coloured and calcined. With them were two teeth (of
a ruminant), part of the tibia of bird (curlew or plover), and a, piece
of shell (Helix). Twenty of the bone fragments exhibited the peculiar
transverse crack-like' marks alluded to in preceding interments,"
- Wood-Martin. |
Wakeman's drawing of Carrowmore 52 in 1888.
