Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Irish Grid Ref: G6624533447
Location: Link to Bing Maps
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| The "passage" at Listoghill |
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| Looking towards sunrise |
Description:
The passage tomb is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"Carrowmore (P51) "Lios a tSeagail" (1940) OD 100-200 G662 334
This is a large cairn, now 50m by 56m across and 2m high. Within this a small number of kerbstones are exposed and these indicate a diameter of c. 35m. At the centre there is a slab built megalithic chamber covered by a large roof-slab. Petrie (1837) has recorded local claims that burnt human bones and wood were found in the chamber and animal bones, in quantity, in various parts of the cairn. Wood-Martin found some bones in the chamber and what he has described as a flint knife (Wood-Martin 1885-6; 1888)"
I was not aware of a proposed alignment at this site until I began research for my alignments database. I found the following link to a paper by Padraig Meehan titled A Possible Astronomical Alignment marking Seasonal Transitions at Listoghil, Sligo
To date I do not have full access to the paper but it looks to be a well researched piece that puts forward the theory that this cairn is aligned to the Nov / Feb Cross Quarter Days sun-rise.
Video of Samhain sunrise at Listoghil
Links to photographs;
Picture of the cairn by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor McGlen (from Italy)
Links for further information;
A general description of Listoghil the central monument in the Carrowmore Passage Tomb Complex Sligo Ireland and a directional analysis of the kerbstones by Padriag Meehan
More information on Listoghil and Carrowmore at www.carrowmore.com by Martin Byrne
