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NOTES ON THE 

 PRE-HISTORIC MONUMENTS AT CARROWMORE, 



NEAR SLIGO: 



BATTLE-FIELD OF THE NORTHERN MOYTURA. 

 BY CHARLES ELCOCK. 



]BOUT two and a half miles south-west of Sligo, the 

 high road to Seafield passes through Carrowmore, in 

 the parish of Kilmacowen. It lies at the foot of Knock- 

 narea, on the summit of which, at an elevation of 1078 feet 

 above the sea, stands the large tumulus of the celebrated Queen 

 Meave, which has served for many a century as a mark for 

 mariners far out at sea. Carrowmore is slightly elevated above 

 the surrounding country, and the surface is considerably undu- 

 lating. The whole district, and for many miles in a line nearly 

 north and south, inclining a little to the north-west and south- 

 east, is covered with large, irregular, erratic blocks of coarse 

 granite, dropped during the glacial period. 



Carrowmore may be regarded as classic ground, and the anti- 

 quarian may here revel for days in examining the various rude 

 stone monuments, such as cromleacs, cists, stone circles, tumuli, 



