Not indication, Lecarrow, Co. Sligo

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Megalithic Tombs

Not indication, Lecarrow, Co. Sligo

Near Lecarrow in County Sligo, there is a site recorded simply as having no indication, a designation that is itself quietly telling.

In the cataloguing of megalithic tombs, a "not indication" entry typically marks a location where something was once noted or suspected but where no visible monument, structural remains, or diagnostic features could be confirmed on the ground. It is, in essence, an absence that was considered worth recording, which suggests that the absence itself was once in question.

The site appears in Seán Ó Nualláin's Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Volume V, covering County Sligo, published by the Stationery Office in Dublin in 1989. Ó Nualláin's survey was a systematic attempt to document the prehistoric tomb tradition across Ireland, a tradition that in Sligo is unusually dense, the county being home to some of the most significant Neolithic monuments in the country. That a location in Lecarrow warranted inclusion, even under so indeterminate a category, places it within that broader landscape of prehistoric activity, even if nothing tangible now marks the spot.

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