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Carrowmore

Extensive Neolithic cemetery in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, 5 km/3 mi southwest of Sligo; the largest group of megalithic monuments in the British Isles and the second largest in Europe after Carnac in Brittany, France. The site has suffered severe depredation and damage, particularly due to gravel quarrying, but over 60 partially complete circles, standing stones, passage-graves, and portal tombs survive. An 1839 survey listed a further 23 tombs, now vanished, and the original necropolis may have numbered more than a hundred. Excavated burial chambers contain cremated remains dating from 3000 BC.



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