Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, 7000 years old?! History & Excavation. County Sligo, Ireland.
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The location of Carrowmore megalithic cemetery is on the Knocknarae peninsula in county Sligo, Ireland.
Carrowmore is one of the 4 major passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland, the other 3 being Loughcrew, Carrowkeel and Newgrange.
Carrowmore megalithic cemetery is the largest of it’s kind in Ireland and regarded to be amongst the oldest megaliths in Europe.
Results of radiocarbon dating from between 1994-2000 suggest that the oldest monument at Carrowmore cemetery was built around 5400BC,
making it more than 7400 years old, that’s about 2000 years older than Newgrange.
At Carrowmore there had been 2 seasonal campaigns of excavation. The excavations were led by Swedish archaeologist Göran Burenhult, who has been writing about their findings and new data extensively since.
Burenhult was personally invited to dig by Michael J. O’Kelly
The construction of Listoghil tomb was dated to be around 3600 and 3400 BC.
This is also the only tomb at the cemetery where both inhumation and cremations have been found.
The human remains found in the tombs at Carrowmore cemetery suggest that the inhabitants of the region had a complex set of funerary practices.
This included processes of reburial and excarnation (The removal of the flesh and organs of a deceased person before burial).
Artefacts found in burial sites at Carrowmore cemetery include hollow scrapers, mushroom headed antler pins, stone or clay balls and arrowheads made of flint from the Antrim region.
Cremation was thought to be to be the common way for burials in this time period, but findings like these unburnt bones dating this far back suggests that inhumation and cremation were practised at the same time.
The new available evidence supports the idea of a much more complex background for the Irish megaliths and the different kind of tomb types.
More complex than the previously thought chronological stages and geographical spread.
But the evolutionary development can clearly be defined within the different tomb types.
The oldest known tombs are the smaller and simpler monuments and the complex mega monuments such as the great passage tombs of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange in the Brú na Bóinne have been constructed much later.
At Carrowmore cemetery is this very evident, the earliest dated monuments consisting of simple stone cists and small dolmens are first succeeded by a rudimentary cruciform chamber and eventually succeeded by Listoghil a very large cairn monument containing a limestone chamber.
Listoghil is most likely succeeded by Queen Maeve’s Grave on top of Knocknarae mountain marking the end and final peak of the megalithic tradition on the Knocknarae peninsula.
In the most recent decades a growing number of megalithic monuments in western Europe have been shown to be older than previously thought.
Although the oldest radiocarbon dating at Carrowmore is contested to this day for being an outlier on the site, doesn’t mean the date is wrong.
And with evidence found during excavations at Carrowmore there are indications that not as previously thought; the building of megalithic tombs originated from the south, but originated simultaneously in different places in Europe.
These findings suggest that we will have to rewrite our megalithic history as recent discoveries in the last few decades have given us much more information, changing our views of the past.
But there is much more work to be done when it comes to finding out more from our stone age past.
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Sources:
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Burenhult, G. 1999b. Megalithic symbolism in Ireland and Scandinavia in light of new evidence from Carrowmore. ARKEOS 6. Perspectivas em Diálogo. Tomo 1. Tomar.
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Bergh, Stefan. The Neolithic dates from Carrowmore 1978-98: A source critical review
Burenhult, G. 2001. Long-distance cultural interaction in megalithic Europe:
Carrowmore and the Irish megalithic tradition in a western European and
Mediterranean context.
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I Love that Cat. I have had cats all my old life and they are like small Friends to me. Great Video. R
One thing i really liked about this video was that at some moments i asked myself "What does this mean ?" or "Why ?" and right the next seconds you explained it ! The script of this video was really well made !
Thank you! That's kind of the purpose☺️
I want people to question our stone age past, but also I'd like to inform my viewers as much as I can.
It's not easy trying to write a script and not loose track of the important stuff, but as long as I keep improving with each video I can do these magnificent structures justice ☺️
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@@HistoryWithKayleigh estás equivocada decís mentiras no es cierto lo qye decís ignoras cosas graves que ocurrieron
Hello from royal County Meath Ireland 🇮🇪
Hello! I'd hope to visit County Meath in the future and see the Hill of Tara and the Brú na Bóinne tombs!😍☺️
@@HistoryWithKayleigh yes definitely come over if you're coming too newgrange get there early because it does be busy Tara can be busy depends better off coming when it rains 😀🇮🇪🚣 and good thing about Tara is free unless you want to go into church watch an audio visual on place it's ok better of going for walk around site get lost 😁
Ireland has some interesting history.... thanks for the information.
Next time we will go to an English site in Oxfordshire ☺️
Another great video. I had not actually heard about some of these mounds until watching this. Also like the different distinctions you made between mounds, well done.
Loved it. It was "I'm gonna look this up on Google Earth simultaneously" good. I also like the 'no BS' way in which the information is delivered. I'm learning a lot in a short time. Well done.
I agree. She's good. I'm from West Ireland.
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Awesome 👍👍👍, learned a lot.🌹
great video from my home town - Just one addition. English heritage members can also get in for free
Greetings from Sligo, thanks for the video.. Carrowmore is right on my door step.. Sligo is full of monuments and structures like this.. there is a theory that the first people came on the tides from the south and landed in and around the west of Ireland, then made their way east eventually.. there are huge shell middens along the shores of Sligo where the people would have gathered shell foods. thanks again for the great videos... a lot of Irish people have no interest in our physical history.. oh, one of the symbols on the main structure is very similar the Indian symbol OM, and having traveled around some of India I found remarkable similarities in the two countries.. Regards P..
Sligo seems absolutely amazing!
The didn't arrive on the tides, they arrived on boats, with cows . Check out the Céide Fields .
Really nice informative video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Another Great Video, Kayleigh !!! As I watch the older vids, I get a sense of how far you’ve come as an editor, orator, and yes, singer 😂👍🤙✌️
Thank you 🤗
wow what a video!! very interesting thanks for sharing
Thank you so much! ❤️
@@HistoryWithKayleigh no problem keep up the awesome work ! :)
I'm going to try my hardest to improve with each video I make ☺️
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Thats awesome bc there is always room for improvement but STILL your video i thought was really good i support your channel and look forward to more
I'm absolutely loving this video series you've started, you're doing a wonderful job.
I'd be fascinated to hear your take on Irish mythology! Mythology in conjunction with ancient archaeology is a topic I'm diving deep into myself, it is so fascinating to see the similarities (and differences of course) with so many other cultures around the world, even as far away as South America and more. Similar themes and ideas being told worldwide is super interesting to me, you have to start to wonder if there are not some kernels of truth embedded in there!
Keep up the great content!
Thank you! I will definitely be making a video diving into the mythology of Ireland and most likely other places as well.
I'll have to wait until I have a new graphics card in a few months so that editing longer videos will be easier☺️
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I look forward to it! I think we're honestly very lucky to have an interest such as this as we could literally be researching and having fun learning and exploring for the rest of our lives and we still probably will not know everything, or there will be something new that changes it all again! There's no time to be bored when you have history to read and decipher! 😅
Hopefully someone very clever will be able to make a robotic submersible archaeologist to excavate the North Sea. Imagine all of the finds there are! Nevermind all of the other coastal areas worldwide that were lost due to rise in sea levels! We'll need an army of them!
I hope you and yours are all safe and well! 😊
Omg yes, a robot that can do archaeological digs in the North-Sea, especially where doggerland used to be.
Cause the Netherlands and the British isles used to be connected in the last glacial period.
When the ice started melting doggerland became submersed under water, leaving a small landmass known as doggerbank, which eventually became submersed as well, but is still somewhat visible with satellite imaging.
I would love to know more about that, I think that's also one of the ways the Celts went from Central Europe into the British isles before the glacial period ended. And that's how all these different cultures in different places had similar constructions of megaliths, like the dolmens, burial cairn mounds, longbarrow mounds and the pyramids
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Aaah history, you can't ever learn too much😍
Dice mentiras no es cierto lo que dice estas estructuras fueron hechas por la luna ningún humano lo hizo
@@TheGhostKeymuchas piedras llevadas allí por ks Luna cayeron en los océanos
5.12 Kayleigh issues a command in the ancient Cat language. The cat understands and immediately complies. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.
Hahahaha 😂
My cats do listen quite good thankfully 🤭
The music in the background is Adrian Von Ziegler, song Evening Breeze, you can find it on Spotify......fitting music for this video!!
I almost always use music from Adrian von Ziegler, his compositions suit the vibe of these videos perfectly! 🤗
MY cat was in my lap while I watched your video. LOL
This such an amazing video thanks for sharing
Thank you Crystal!
Cat people are the best. Lots of Love Kayleigh, James
Haha they are
Definitely one of my favorite series of videos. Always informative and interesting. The host is watchable too! Yes, would like to see an Irish myths video, or any others dealing with ancient British isle peoples. How about looking into the areas now under water, such as "dogland?" Or whatever it is called. Thanks for your videos.
Doggerland will definitely get its own video in the future, but first I'll stick to the Structures, theories and new discoveries 🤗
While I'm making these videos we are simultaneously renovating our house, so time is quite limited at the moment 🤭
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Groovy! I'll try to be patient. Great stuff!
Love your accent. You made the description of excarnation sound charming.
Hahaha 😂
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Another great video, loving you doing all the hard work for me to watch 😉 (grrrr cat though ! 😂) ... going to Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey on Saturday after seeing your video 😀
Visited Carrowmore a few years back. Amazing place; you go miles to see one megalithic site other days then here there is so much archaeology of varying styles in one spot it's fantastic! It's like a megalithic Disneyland for the stone spotter. Queen Maeb's massive tomb overlooks the whole area. Walkers still carry stones to leave as they ascend meaning it's the only tomb still 'under construction' and the only one under pretty much 6,000 year continuous construction.
Carrowmore and Carrowkeel are both so fascinating to me, county Sligo is incredible 🥰
@@HistoryWithKayleigh agreed. There are identified sign posted sites then you just stumble across individual standing stones or remains of small circles just while driving. There's stuff everywhere in the west. With view to what you say in the video, there is SO much in Ireland it does give the impression cultural movement was from west to east in the British Isles.
I agree with the yeah haha, Carrowmore is older than the monuments in county Meath ☺️
This is great! Kayleigh is doing this really well, and the microphone loves her voice. It is very informative and has a lot of facts. It would be nice if a graphicly timeline was added plotting the different dates which are talked about.
I could look into that 🙂
This was way back when i just started with the channel haha 😂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I know, I'm going through your videos from start to finish while I'm working.
I’ve been a subscriber for about a week. Im doing the catch up on Kayleigh as well. Without sounding like a reverse sexist, Kayleigh and Jahannah James are two of my favorites. When you get past just how pretty both of them are and start listening to their take and explains on things both channels are very informative.
Kayleigh just needed some exposure. As many Ancient History channels I’m subscribed to I’m mad at CZcams for not adding this channel to “Suggestions”.
What a great TV series on something like the History Channel to have Kayleigh, Jahannah, Ben from UnchartedX, Yousef, Jimmy and Christopher Dunn to name a few.
@@jeffhenderson934 Just between you and I, I'm so happy to have found Kayleigh's channel since I've missed some ancient stuff from the Scandinavia area, and her Doggerland episode was so welcoming. Comparing Kayleigh and Jahannah isn't easy. Kayleigh is very scientifically correct, and I respect that. And she has a very calm way of speech. Jahannah is great too, but it's simply something very different. The fact they are not men doesn't mean much to me, they are doing a fantastic job both of them.
If you have a lot of time, I suggest Randall Carlsons potcast at Kosmographia. A very indepth sight at the end of the ice age, and whether Plato's island of Atlantis is impossible or not.
Nevertheless, I hope you will enjoy History with Kayleigh as much as I did.
@@KlausJepps I’m not very smart, and a bit shallow, so I typically don’t pick up on differences in delivery and or speech patterns. Now that you mentioned it, Jahannah is more flamboyant with her speech patterns and voice inflections, where Kayleigh is more intellectual and scientific. Both are great at what they do. The two of them together have a “Ying & Yang” compliment to each other. Either or both, it would be great to meet them and hear them in person over a beer. (Stella Artois on tap is a favorite, but I’m in Atlanta, so any beer I’ve had has been watered down to American taste. I’m sure you would have a better choice) All the best, Jeff
Love your vids.
Best presentation of these tombs, yet. I love the depth you go to. And seeing a kitty foot in the air helped get through the de-fleshing bits.😺
I would like to see some Norse sites on your channel. After finding out I have that DNA, I've really gotten an interest in ancient Viking archaeology.
It's sad that so much of history has been plowed under or looted for building contemporary things...like boundary walls, churches, etc.
Yes, please! Irish mythology!✌💖😺
Definitely will make videos about Norse sites, for now I'll stay in the stone age, so Norse Neolithic structures will absolutely be covered in the future!🤗
Thank you so much for your kind words!
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I love everything up to the end of the bronze age, so I'll be sticking around. Thanks!✌😺
Very interesting to watch! I have a question; you say that Listoghil is not a passage tomb, but a portal tomb. What are those and what is the difference?
A passage tomb has a passageway leading into the inner chamber, and the chamber of a passage tomb therefore always has an entrance.
Sometimes a passage tombs has more than one chamber, as we've seen in Newgrange.
A portal tomb is actually a closed off dolmen inside the mound.
The chamber has no passage and therefore no entrance and it never has more than 1 chamber.
I should've put that info in the video🤭☺️
I'll definitely be sure to clarify it in a future video with a portal tomb 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh : Thank you so much for explaining! I love these historical vids about ancient human history. Keep up the good work!
Inhumation, learned a new word today, thankyou.
At first, I thought your hands were working a keyboard, then the shape of
your cat was more evident. (old man's eyeballs, I guess) What's the name of your cat?
Beautiful colouring.
Cat's can identify a peaceful spirit in humans sometimes.
Well back to binge watching your wonderful videos, I'm learning
so much.
I have two cats, a male named Mosi and his actual daughter named Laila
Kayleigh do you have any videos on the Barabar Caves? I can't find anything in your channel. thanks!
Hi Kayleigh, I'm playing catch up with this video but what really is fascinating is when thinking of ancient structures or civilization, you rarely relate it to Ireland or other European sites. Thank you! Love your videos.
Thank you! It's where my focus started for the channel, and i have many more sites to cover on the Irish and British isles 🥰
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I can understand your interest in those sites. Here in the US there are numerous mounds either not excavated or completely ignored. I wonder what rich history they may contain.
I covered the Watson Brake Mounds in Louisiana for a reason haha, they're the oldest earthworks that have been discovered, researched and dated 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh haha..you're so interesting to converse with. In Illinois where I live there are mounds located in the south of the state. I will see what the research says but I do know they were originally categorized as burial mounds but my historical instinct tells me there's more involved. Thank you!
This is awesome! Are you doing anything to celebrate International Day for Monuments and Sites later this week?
I'm trying to upload a new video on Sunday, but it's not clear if I can make that deadline, due to renovations in the home☺️
This is an interesting video...must be an early one as the subject matter seems new to me
many ancient cultures cremated their dead, hard to say how long that tradition has carried on
Great video! Also what an adorable cat :)
Thank you so much!🌷
Look, I like history and I’m interested in some really, really niche stuff, but I never thought I’d enjoy a video about Stone Age Irish structures. Great video!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Next video is about a Neolithic structure in Oxfordshire England ☺️
that early date gotta be wrong
86th, 19 March 2023
Came across your link on reddit. Gucci af Stanley Tucci. Consider me subscribed. Like, because I am.
Thank you!
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Thanks!
On the borders of Neolithic, Mesolithic and Cat🐈alithic.
killing it as usual ❤
OMFG thank you Jayden ❤️♥️😘
Hi! I found you on reddit, I tried posting there, but comments are locked. Feel free to delete if you don't want this here:
I watched because I'm doing history too (started mine for the distance learning for my students). I thought you color of your video and lightning were good. I did hear a slight whistle or him in your audio. You might be interested in auphonic.com. I've been running my audio through it and it's been taking my background noise out. I think you get like 2 hours of audio processing free every month.
I used audacity, but I don't like how it's changes the pitch of my voice whenever I use noise reduction..
I can look into auphonic, unfortunately the mic input slots on my desktop are faulty, and that's where the hum originates. But I can't find a decent program for my phone to record both the video and external audio from the microphone.
Hopefully in the future I will find a way to fix this☺️
@@HistoryWithKayleigh ah. Not that mine audio is anything to write home about (though a quieter room and some dampening panels would help) I plug a blue yeti into my phone. I bought a cheap USB to usb-c adapter that does the trick. I'm using open camera, but only because Filmic Pro doesn't work great on a pixel 3.