Exploring Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, Co. Sligo, Ireland 4K 3-D Stone Circle Scans

Exploring Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, Co. Sligo, Ireland, ft 3-D Stone Circle Scans
0:00 Intro
01:20 Carrowmore overview
02:30 Tomb 51
04:24 Tomb 56
04:42 Tomb 57
07:07 Tomb 57 3-D Scan
07:42 Carrowmore Central Walk
08:00 Tomb 54
09:13 Tomb 55
10:05 Tomb 53
10:41 Tomb 52
11:06 Tomb 48 3-D Scan
11:31 Tomb 49 3-D Scan
11:56 Tomb 1
13:24 Tomb 1 3-D Scan
13:46 Tomb 3
14:52 Tomb 3 3-D Scan
15:52 Tomb 4
16:17 Tomb 4 3-D Scan
Located on the Cúil Irra Peninsula on Co. Slio, Ireland, Carrowmore is the oldest and largest group of megalithic tombs in Ireland. It is also one of Europe’s largest megalithic cemeteries.
Carrowmore is set within a spectacular megalithic landscape dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west. On Knocknarea’s summit is one of Ireland's largest cairns, known as Queen Maeve's Cairn.
There are bout 50 megalithic tombs on the Cúil Irra peninsula. Most of these, 30 tombs, are at Carrowmore.
Carrowmore’s tombs were built from 3500 BCE to 2900 BCE, during the Neolithic, New Stone Age, according to radio carbon dating results. It’s likely people who built the tombs were Ireland’s first farmers.
Carrowmore is one of Ireland’s 'big four' megalithic clusters along with nearby Carrowkeel in Co. Sligo and Loughcrew and Brú na Bóinne in Co. Meath.
Archaeologists consider Carrowmore - like Newgrange, Loughcrew and Carrowkeel -part of the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition.
There may have once been as many as 100 megalithic monuments in the Carrowmore area. Many of the tombs were destroyed or damaged during the during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries by quarrying, field clearance and by antiquarians hunting for ancient treasures.
A number of monuments are located on private property adjacent to the public National Monument.
Today Carrowmore is a protected Irish National Monument and is maintained by the Office of Public Works.
Although many of the monuments have been disturbed, Carrowmore has been the subject of extensive research.
Dutch artist Gabriel Beranger visited Carrowmore in 1779 and drew some of the monuments.[2][3] A valuable record of Carrowmore at the time, sis drawings monuments since destroyed or damaged.
Pioneering photographers, such as W.A. Green and R.J. Welch of the Belfast Photographer's club, photographed Carrowmore at the turn of the twentieth century.
Local landlord Rodger Walker conducted unrecorded antiquarian excavations in the 19th century. These digs were essentially treasure hunts to augment Walker’s antiquities collection. Walker kept poor records of his activities. Some of the Walker’s finds are now at Alnwick castle in Northumberland, England[4]
The Carrowmore monuments were mapped and numbered by Irish archeologist George Petrie in 1837 during the first mapping of Ireland conducted by the British Ordinance Survey. Petrie’s number system identifies the monuments today.
In the 1880s Sligo-born archaeologist and army officer Col. W.G. Wood- Martin conducted the first recorded excavations and made numerous finds.
Extensive excavations led by Swedish archaeologist Göran Burenhult were conducted from 1977-1982 and 1994-1998 and 10 tombs were fully or partially excavated. Listoghil, Tomb 51, was excavated in 1996-1998.
At least two sets of archeologists have conducted extensive research on Carrowmore’s age using radio carbon dating and studies of nearby lake sediments. Carrowmore’s monuments were found to span the era from 3750 BCE to 3000 BCE and the builders were farmers.
Multimillenia-old human remains found at Carrowmore have been able to tell their story thanks to DNA analysis.
Intimate connections between occupants of other Irish passage tombs have been revealed by DNA derived from human bones found at Carrowmore. A detectable kin relationship was found between a male buried in Listoghil, Carrowmore’s Tomb 51, and three other males buried in Newgrange, Millin Bay and Carrowkeel.
Modern scientific analysis of ancient genetics proves the ancestor of the people who built Ireland’s megalithic monuments originated in Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.
An extended article on Carrowmore is available here: irelandinsideandout.com/2023/...
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