I've known of this stone circle and now I've finally managed to visit it. After seeing it from a couple the sites I'd previously visited today I was really eager to experience the views from this site and I wasn't too disappointed. Unfortunately, visibility wasn't too good due to low cloud and hazy air.
The remains of this circle now stands in a copse of pine trees, which in turn stands on low circular platform about 60m in diameter. There are four large stones left, one of which is displaced. There is one granite stone with a line of linear cupmarks like those at Castleruddery Lower (County Wicklow), Ballyedmonduff (County Dublin) and The Piper's Stones (County Wicklow) amongst others. The other two stones are huge quartz blocks although one of them is so covered in moss that I didn't realise this until I was standing right next to it.
These two quartz stones mark the southwest side of the circle and appear to be entrance stones - another similiarity to Castleruddery stone circle. Through the low cloud I think I could make out a deep notch in the Wicklow Mountains in this direction, so I wonder if there's a Winter Solstice sunrise alignment here.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
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 Clogherny (Co. Tyrone) |  Bohonagh (Co. Cork) |  Castlemervin (Co. Tyrone) |
