Welcome to Ireland's longest court tomb cairn! This site is huge and very complex. The cairn is a massive 70m long and runs east-west. At the west end there is a nicely preserved court that leads into a 7m long gallery. The gallery is full of cairn material, but you can see the top of the corbel stones that would have supported the now missing roofstones. At this end the cairn is over 3m tall. Along the north side of the cairn you can see a low stone wall, which may be part of the original revetment that held the cairn in place.
From the rear of the gallery the cairn tapers both in plan and height to a fine point. Roughly halfway along its length there is the finest subsidiary chamber I've seen to date. To all intents and purposes this subsidiary chamber is a portal tomb. It has a fine pair of entrance stones with a low doorstone set between them. The chamber behind them is made with 5 orthostats and the roofstones can be seen lying to either side of it.
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