( 'Proceedings Belfast Naturalists' Field Club .—Appendix 1883-1884^ 
NOTES ON THE 
PRE-HISTORIC MONUMENTS AT CARROWMORE, 
NEAR SLIGO : 
BATTLE-FIELD OF THE NORTHERN MOYTURA. 
BY CHARLES ELCOCK. 
FT two and a half miles south-west of Sligo, the 
it road to Seafield passes through Carrowmore, in 
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, 
