I spoke to two farmers on the way to this site. Despite knowing of other sites in the area and seeing Knockeen (County Waterford) every day across the valley, the younger one didn't know that there was a monument on his land, but the elder of the two knew all the sites in the area. The latter gave me rough directions and off I set.
The first thing I came across was a suspicious looking stone in the hedge, but knowing what remains of the site I knew I hadn't found it yet. This slab must have come from the tomb, though. I walked along the hedgerow and saw two huge stones through a small gap. As I climbed into the hedge it opened out into a little glade bounded on one side by these two large slabs on one side and, running at right angles to these, the tomb.
There is no cairn remaining and it's difficult to say what relationship the two large stone originally had with the monument. The largest certainly doesn't have the right shape to have been a roofstone. If it was part of the kerb then it was a massive kerb.
The east-west aligned gallery is more complete on the south side. At least two wall slabs are missing from the north side. There is a solitary roofstone in place at the west end and a second one leans against the outside of the south wall.
The site is on a gentle north facing slope, just 20m from where the it starts to run steeply down to the stream below. If this wasn't inside the hedge the views to the north would take in Knockeen [portal tomb] and the rocky ridge beyond. To the west you would be able to see the rocky outcrop known locally as the Sugar Loaf.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Ballyvatheen (Co. Kilkenny) |  Laughanstown (Co. Dublin) |  Lickbla (Co. Westmeath) |
 Inchincurka (Co. Cork) |  Clogherny (Co. Tyrone) |  Moymore (Co. Clare) |
