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Carrowkeel Glebe
Carrowkeel may refer to the following places in Ireland: * Carrowkeel, County Galway, townland * Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, County Sligo * Kerrykeel, known as Carrowkeel in census returns, in County Donegal {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrowkeel, County Galway
Carrowkeel () is a townland in County Galway "Righteousness and Justice" , anthem = () , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Galway.svg , map_caption = Location in Ireland , area_footnotes = , area_total_km2 = ..., Ireland. It lies in the civil parish of Leitrim and the barony of the same name. As of the 2011 census, the townland of Carrowkeel had a population of 44 people. Leitrim Roman Catholic church, which is dedicated to Saint Andrew and was built in Carrowkeel in 1858, is listed on Galway County Council's Record of Protected Structures. See also * List of townlands of County Galway References Townlands of County Galway {{Galway-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery
Carrowkeel is a cluster of passage tombs in south County Sligo, Ireland. They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic era. The monuments are on the Bricklieve Hills (''An Bricshliabh'', 'the speckled hills'), overlooking Lough Arrow, and are sometimes called the Bricklieve tombs. They are named after the townland of Carrowkeel in which most of them are located. Nearby are the Caves of Kesh and Heapstown Cairn. The Carrowkeel tombs are protected National Monuments and are considered one of the "big four" passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland, along with Carrowmore, Brú na Bóinne and Loughcrew. History and research The monuments at Carrowkeel were originally excavated in 1911 by a team led by R.A.S. Macalister, accompanied by Robert Lloyd Praeger and Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong. These excavations led to an array of findings including animal bones, cremated human remains, human bones, and tools and pottery from the Neolithic Age. The particular type of cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |