Carrowkeel - The Narrow Quarter Looking to Carrowkeel from Ardloy Cairn.
Letters have links to the cairns.
Perhaps one of the least known of Ireland's ancient sites, but without doubt the most spectacularly situated, Carrowkeel is a large group of megalithic monuments sited on the highest parts of the northern ends of the Bricklieve Mountains in the south Co. Sligo. Carrowkeel is located in the beautiful Lough Arrow region, south of the village of Castlebaldwin, in one of the most scenic and unspoilt areas remaining in the country. The limestone built cairns are visible from many miles around as small bumps on the ridges of the Bricklieves, particularly from the other mounds and monuments in the county. This was undoubtedly one of the most sacred and important centres of Ancient Ireland - indeed it has been suggested by some that it was a very ancient capital of the Sligo region. It is a landscape rich with physical remains of the ancient past, and mythical echoes that can still be perceived in the majesty of the location and the view from the top of the mountain across the plains of Sligo.