Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery

PricingFree with English Heritage membershipEH memberFree entryNon-member€5

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Free entry for English Heritage members

This place is cared for by the Office of Public Works, which runs Ireland's national heritage sites as Heritage Ireland. English Heritage members are entitled to free entry to all OPW sites from the first year of membership. Show your current membership card at admissions.

Bring the card itself: joint and family memberships admit the named holders only.
Guided sites may run tours at set times; unguided sites are free to everyone.
Prices here are in euro.

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Entry

Non-member prices

Adult€5.00

Child or student€3.00

Senior or group€4.00

Family€13.00

Pricing details

Standard price, sold at the visitor centre only; no online booking. OPW's general rule gives free admission to children under 12 and to visitors with disabilities and their carers. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

OPW's Child/Student rate; no age band given on the page, and OPW says children under 12 visit free. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

OPW's Group/Senior rate; no age given on the page. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

OPW's family ticket; the page does not define the family. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

OPW lists a car park at the visitor centre but publishes no charge; it lies beside the centre on the local road from the R292, 5 km from the N4 Sligo to Dublin road at the R292 junction and 4 km from Sligo town centre, following the R292 towards Strandhill. OPW gives no bus or train directions.

Driving pin: the visitor car park beside the visitor centre, mapped by OpenStreetMap 48 m from OPW's pin on the centre.

About

Carrowmore, on the Cúil Irra peninsula south-west of Sligo town along the Wild Atlantic Way, is one of the most significant prehistoric landscapes in Europe: the largest and oldest collection of Neolithic tombs in Ireland, with over thirty surviving monuments dating back almost six thousand years. Most are passage tombs and boulder circles spread across grazed fields around the central cairn of Listoghil, with Queen Maeve's cairn on Knocknarea on one skyline and Ben Bulben on another, and the site forms part of the Passage Tomb Landscape of Sligo on Ireland's tentative list for World Heritage status. A newly upgraded visitor centre in a restored cottage, opened in April 2026, holds the exhibition in Irish and English, upgraded toilets and an all-weather shelter; from it visitors set out with a laminated guide sheet or a guide across rough ground to the accessible monuments, since some lie on private land. Reviewers praise the staff who point out the less obvious stones and allow about two hours.

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Until 2 Dec: Daily 10:00–18:00, last admission 17:00
From 3 Dec: Closed

Today, Saturday 24 October

Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery10:00 – 18:00last admission 17:00

Prices, non-members

Adult€5.00
Child€3.00
Family€13.00

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open 12 March to 2 December 2026, daily 10am to 6pm with last admission 5pm as OPW prints it for the whole season; closed for the winter after 2 December, with the 2027 season unpublished. Self-guided with a laminated guide sheet or with a guide; tickets at the visitor centre, no online booking. Free admission for everyone on the first Wednesday of each month in season.

The visitor centre, opened after its upgrade on 1 April 2026, is accessible with upgraded toilets and an all-weather shelter, but access to the monuments is limited for wheelchair users: be ready for a walk over rough, uneven ground through grazed fields, and some tombs on private land cannot be visited. Card payments accepted; no cafe or shop.

Photo: A boulder circle at Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery seen across mown grass between overhanging trees, with the hills of County Sligo beyond. PaulT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IRL_Carrowmore_Megalithic_Cemetery_01.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.