Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery
Carrowkeel, the most beautiful and mysterious collection of the Irish megalithic monuments, is part of an extensive landscape settled by early neolithic cattle-farmers from Brittany. At Carrowkeel, a remarkable series passage-graves were constructed in stages beginning around 3,500 BC, across the highest summits and ledges of the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo. The monuments, which served as the final resting places of specific people within the neolithic community, would also have functioned as territorial markers for an expanding colonisation of the region.