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CARRAMORETOMBS

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Where it is located?Why is it famous?When was it built? What does it look today?More info......Cailleach of Eire

What will you learn

Carramore tombs is located in Ransboro,Co.Sligo in the North West of Ireland.

Where is Carramore

Carramore tombs are famous because the tombs there are up to 5000-5800 years old. People carried out the tradition of tradition of burying their dead here for 400-500 years. They travelled from all over Ireland with their loved ones’ remains 2 or 3 times a year.

Why is it famous

The tombs are as old if not older than the Egyptian Pyramids.

The central monument of Listoghill has been dated to 3600 BC! According to Petrie in the 1800s.

When was it built

5 supporting 1 cap stone. The stones are made of gneiss and it shines because of the quarts .

Gneiss is found in the Ox mountains gneiss is a metamorphic stone. There are 30 tombs

facing the centre.

What does it look like today

A lot of our ancestors are buried there and there are three ways of burying people: 1. people are burned and crushed before burying 2.people are left to decay before buried 3.people are skinned before buried

The burial

There are 30 tombs facing the central tomb.The people were sun worshipers.Each peak on each mountain surrounding the

site has a tomb on it.Carromore is a bronze age site.

More information

Legend tells us that the ‘Witch of Winter’ was flying across Carromore on her broom and dropped all the stones out from her apron.

Scientifically glaciers went over Carromore and dropped all the stones.

Cailleach of Eire

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