Creevykeel Court Tomb
Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo
Creevykeel Court Tomb is located on the foothills of Tievebaun Mountain close to the sea near Mullaghmore in County Sligo. Dating from the Neolithic period (c. 4000 – 2500 BC) it consists of a wedge-shaped cairn (a human-made pile of stones) about 50m long, incorporating at its eastern end an oval-shaped court. (The aerial shot I took off the web, to give both thee and me a better sense of its shape.) The entrance into the court is at the east, and consists of a narrow passage-way lined with upright stones. From the court is the entrance to the burial gallery which is divided by upright stones into two chambers and was originally covered by a corbelled roof. On site is also a dolmen - a single-chamber megalithic tomb, consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone ("table"). What to say? To see this type of structure, to walk among these ruins, to actually touch the stones built by people thousands of years ago was, quite simply, amazing. Awesome in its truest, purest, meaning. |
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