This is very difficult to find without a good grid reference and a GPS. Luckily, in this instance, the State Monuments Register is spot on.
Only 50-60cm of the orthostats stand proud of the peat and this is only the case because the peat around the site has been cut a little. If the peat was undisturbed I am not sure if anything sould be visible at all.
The 2m long capstone is slightly displaced, but still covers the chamber, which in turn is nearly full of cairn rubble. The entrance faces roughly south. One very interesting thing to note about this site is that you can definitely feel some cairn material just onder the present ground surface in front of the entrance. This would indicate that the entrance was either blocked off at some point or that the monument originally stood within a cairn that reached at least up to its capstone. It is very rare to find a portal tomb in this state, making this a very improtant monument indeed.
About 75m behind the tomb there is a large boulder that looks as if it could be the capstone of another portal tomb, but it's impossible to say. I don't think it is though. However, it could be the reason the monument was built here, giving it the apprearance of having being pair. The nearby pair of portal tombs (see Cloughananca (County Antrim)) can just be seen poking above the peat to the northwest(ish).
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Pat Kearney's Big Stone (Co. Down) |  Drumhawnagh (Co. Cavan) |  Gurteen Lower (Co. Waterford) |
 Cloughananca (Co. Antrim) |  Cloghin (Co. Tyrone) |  Haroldstown (Co. Carlow) |
