What an odd place this is. It has held some fascination for me for a long, long time. This is because it is in somebody's front drive ... right outside their front door! It's also quite a pain to get to. It is right next to the road, but the road is on the end of Island Magee, a long peninsular. This makes driving to it quite a chore. Ironically I deleted the photos I took of it from my camera, so I will have to make the journey again!
The tomb is a passageless passage tomb. Whether it originally had a passage is unknown. Pictures from the 1800s show it without a passage. It is rather similar to the passage tomb at Craigs Lower (County Antrim). A large roundish capstone rests on some uprights that are about 1.8m high. The chamber formed by these is a little over 1m square.
Most pictures on the internet show the house being painted white, but it is now a brownish colour. I wasn't looking out for a brownish house and drove right past it.
Ok. So it was a bit silly to delete my photos of this site after my first visit. This time I made sure that I didn't do the same thing again. This site takes ages to reach and I don't really want to have to do it again. This might be a very unusual monument, because of its location, but once you've seen it ... you've seen it.
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