When visiting Shalwy (County Donegal) you have to visit this one too. The two are intervisible and a short, but soggy walk apart. Croagh beg is not as impressive as Shalwy, but it's still nice.
Croaghbeg lacks the fine pointed lintel of Shalwy, but does have a nice chunky square sectioned one, which makes it look very solid indeed. The corbelling in the gallery is very impressive in its sizes.
The court is very vague and the archeaologists couldn't properly identify it during excavation due to disturbance. As it stands now the court is mainly formed by drystone walling.
In front of the main tomb is a (now) freestanding subsidiary chamber which really does look like a portal tomb without a capstone, confirming the links between these two types of monument.
Like Shalwy, this monument faces north, away from the sea and towards the valley head, so visits are probably best either late or early on a summer's day.
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