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This site reminds me a lot of Aghamore (County Leitrim). It is in a slightly worse state, but there's something wonderful about this place. When you first see it you ar efooled into thinking that it's a lot more complete than it is due to the presence of a low, modern wall surrounding the remians of its cairn. This wall was obviously constructed from the cairn itself as the stones match those in the cairn - small, flat slabs.
The court would have been at the northwest end, but this area is in total disarray. The gallery is much better. This is, unusually, diamond-shaped - well, more like a truncated kite. The entrance is just under 2m wide. This widens to over 3m wide by the jambs that divide the gallery in two, and then returns to around 2m at the backstone. The nature of the surrounding land and the fact that it has a thick, undulating peat covering means that all the views are blocked. The main visible feature is rounded peak about 1.5km to the northeast.
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