 WGW Sligo County, Ireland
CARROWMORE PRE-HISTORIC CEMETERY COUNTY SLIGO
- The following is not a full list of graveyards in County Sligo and it is not a full list of names for any graveyard. The details were collected over a number of years from graveyards and published sources but excluding those available online.
- Caution: use only as a guide, may contain errors.
- Jim McDonald, January 2004. culrua@iol.ie
 CARROWMORE PRE-HISTORIC CEMETERY (dates from 4,000 BC)
In 1887, Petrie, the celebrated antiquarian, counted in Carrowmore sixty-four circles, besides other sepulchral remains, comprising a large Caltragh, or pagan graveyard, and he supposed the former number to have been probably 200.
Visitors to graveyards should not clean gravestones. The best time to view headstones is at low light, early or late in the day and during winter when growth of weeds is restricted. A full record of gravestone inscriptions can be viewed in the Sligo County Library. In addition the desired information can be purchased from the Sligo Heritage & Genealogical Centre (online).
Contributor:
 Jim McDonald
culrua@iol.ie
Disclaimer:there may be errors due to transcription of
information from both early and late (current contributors) work.
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