I defy anyone to make total sense of this site! At its heart is a partially collapsed wedge tomb, but the immediate area is strewn with possibilities. Before interpreting it you first have to find it, though, which isn't that easy as it lies in a dip two fields from the nearest road.
The tomb occupies rough pasture on a southwest slope. 150m to the northwest is an area of exposed rocky outcrops. Knocknashee (County Sligo) pokes its head above the top of the bank to the southeast. This is the only tomb in the area I visited today where Knocknarea (County Sligo) does not appear on the horizon.
The gallery is about 6m long and defined by two slabs on each side and the spikiest backstone I have ever seen. A massive 3.5m x 2m long roofslab rests against one side of the tomb. 30m behind the tomb there is a large slab flush with the ground, which seems to have a chamber beneath it. A line of stones joins this to the tomb. To the northwest there is a second flat slab lying with its long axis at right angles to the gallery. This seems to point at a low point in the horizon.
High up on the top of the ridge above the tomb is a flat altar-like stone set so that it faces Knocknashee. In the neighboring fields there are many rock outcrops, one of which has had its top split away from it and a stone placed between to separate the two pieces. Because a piece of stone has been used to do this it's impossible to say how long ago this was done.
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