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Explore Carrowcrory in Ireland

Carrowcrory in the region of Connaught is a town in Ireland - some 100 mi or ( 161 km ) North-West of Dublin , the country's capital city .

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Current time in Carrowcrory is now 03:27 PM (Monday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Dublin " with a UTC offset of 0 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Derry, Enniskillen, Belfast, Sligo, and Riverstown. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Derry . We saw some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Carrowcrory ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Keash Caves, Carrowkeel, Full Moon

1:53 min by celticways
Views: 2279 Rating: 5.00

A collage of clips from roaming around Keash Caves of Morrigan, Bhride and Cormac mac Airt were born here. Then a few shots of Cairn G of the Carrowkeel Cairns and then a bit of full moon. Music is a ..

Night City- The Sword Guitar Cover

3:49 min by cairns22
Views: 1611 Rating: 5.00

Track 8 from The Sword's new album Warp Riders. Few mistakes here and there but it doesn't really matter. If you're wondering why some parts of the video dont correspond with the audio, its because i ..


Tubbercurry - A Better Place to Live

5:13 min by tubberchamber
Views: 1477 Rating: 4.43

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Ireland and Dublin

3:49 min by lunaticpoetry
Views: 324 Rating: 5.00

This is just a short video of few random clips. I was in Ireland with my friends last August. And it was amaizing. ENJOY! This is by far not all the footage i have. oh right... GOOD LUCK! ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery

Carrowkeel is a Neolithic passage tomb cemetery in the south of County Sligo, near Boyle, County Roscommon. An Cheathrú Chaol in Irish means 'the Narrow Quarter'. Circumstantial Carbon 14 dating places the tombs at between 5400 and 5100 years old, so that they predate the Pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau by 500-800 years. Carrowkeel is one of the big four passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 54.05 -8.38 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: 4th-millennium BC architecture, Archaeological sites in County Sligo, National Monuments in County Sligo

Curlew Mountains

Viewed to the west travelling north, dominates the surrounding lakes of the north Roscommon and Leitrim countryside. Situated between Boyle, and Castlebaldwin, the Curlew Mountains oversees the north Connacht countryside. The Battle of Curlew Pass, in which Irish forces defeated an English army, was fought here on the 15th of August 1599.

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Located at 54.02 -8.30 (Lat./Long.); Less than 7 km away
Tags: Mountains and hills of County Roscommon, Mountains and hills of County Sligo

Ballynary

Ballynary (Irish: Baile an Fharraigh, meaning "townland of the fodder") is the name of a townland on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in the southern corner of County Sligo in Ireland. Ballynary was the ancestral seat of the O'Higgins family (or Ó hUigínn in Gaelic) for 700 years, until they were forced off their lands in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell.

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Located at 54.08 -8.32 (Lat./Long.); Less than 8 km away
Tags: Townlands of County Sligo

Ballindoon Friary

Ballindoon (Irish: Baile an Dúin) Friary was a Dominican monastery beside Lough Arrow in County Sligo, Ireland. It was dedicated to St. Mary and founded in 1507 by Thomas O'Farrell. It was dissolved c. 1585 and is now in ruins.

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Located at 54.08 -8.32 (Lat./Long.); Less than 8 km away
Tags: 1507 establishments in Ireland, 1580s disestablishments in Ireland, Buildings and structures in County Sligo, Christian monasteries established in the 16th century, Dominican monasteries in the Republic of Ireland, Religion in County Sligo, Religious organizations established in the 1500s, Ruins in the Republic of Ireland

Boyle Abbey

Boyle Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Búille) was the first successful foundation in Connacht of the Cistercian order which had opened its first Irish house at Mellifont, County Louth, in 1142.

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Located at 53.97 -8.30 (Lat./Long.); Less than 9 km away
Tags: Buildings and structures in County Roscommon, Cistercian monasteries in the Republic of Ireland, National Monuments in County Roscommon, Religion in County Roscommon, Religious museums in Ireland, Ruins in the Republic of Ireland