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Site 58 - Carrowmore No. 58. Situated 30 paces to the N.E. 57 (dolmen-circle). "This circle is entirely destroyed, but the supporting-stones of the cromleac, seven in number, remain." - Petrie. This monument "consists of an oblong cist, or enclosure, which was probably at one time covered. If it were ever surrounded by a circle, it has been long since destroyed. This site was most carefully searched, yet no fragments of bone could the discovered, neither were there any signs of charcoal. A flint flake, or knife, was here unearthed, but its point was missing." - Wood Martin. From the plan, the monument seems to be 20 feet long, from out to out, and the longer axis of the chamber N.W. and S.E. Four or five stones at the S.E. end look as if they had formed portion of such an oval enclosure as surrounds monuments such as the Leaba-na-Callighe in Cork, to which class, rather than to that of the dolmen-circle, this structure possibly belongs.