Carrowkeel

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Two of the tombs at Carrowkeel.
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Two of the tombs at Carrowkeel.
Carrowkeel
An Cheathrú Chaol


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Town population: 253 (2002)
Rural population: -
Elevation: 83 m
County: Galway
Province: Connacht

Coordinates: 53.1625° N 8.4964° WCarrowkeel (An Cheathrú Chaol in Irish) is a village in County Galway, Ireland.

Carrowkeel is also the name of a Neolithic cemetery near the city of Sligo. The cairns at Carrowkeel are older than the later stages of Stonehenge and the great pyramids of Egypt.

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