County: Sligo Site name: CARNAWEELEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 40:0601 Licence number: 93E0111
Author: Victor M. Buckley, Charles Mount, Archaeological Survey, OPW
Site type: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 571657m, N 813210m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.067243, -8.432988
During the course of OPW field survey of a passage tomb, a small pocket of cremated bone was noted near the kerb. This was thought to be redeposited material from disturbance of the passage during the last century. The area was isolated and all the material recovered. On examination it appears that the cremated material may not be redeposited, but form a discrete secondary deposition. Analysis of the cremated material by Laureen Buckley showed the remains to be from one adult.
