CADRA invites you to join us for a guided walk to the West Carn on Cairns Hill, Sligo with Dr Stefan Bergh. The West Carn is a neolithic passage tomb that was recently shortlisted for UNESCO World Heritage status along with Knocknarea and Carrowmore tombs. During the guided walk Dr Stefan Bergh will share his knowledge of the West Carn and upon reaching the West Carn you will be able to take in the breath taking views of Sligo and Lough Gill, while connecting with this ancient burial site.

UNESCO and Sligo’s passage tombs
‘The passage tombs of Co. Sligo have a distinctive place within the Irish passage tomb tradition as it is the only area where the full range of monument constructions is clearly represented; from the earliest small boulder circle monuments to the vast cairn covered monuments.
This cultural landscape has an extraordinary density of undisturbed and unexcavated megalithic sites of the passage tomb tradition, providing an unrivalled exemplar of a Neolithic ritual landscape with an exceptional level of completeness, thus illuminating a significant stage in human history.

The monuments were consciously and actively merged with the physical topography in which they are located, and crucially, they remain so; the lives and consciousness of the modern residents of County Sligo daily permeated by living beneath and among these time-honoured monuments and landscapes’. The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Suitable footwear, clothing, rain gear required. Please bring water too.
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