What an appalling day it turned out to be! Not the sites, but the weather - and we really suffered badly here! If you come to this site (and you really should if you are anywhere nearby) then take notes.
The OS maps show two roads that come close to the tomb, one to the south and one to the west. The west road looks like the best one to take because it has a farm at the end where you can park and head across the fields to it. The south one appears to stop short at a dead end. So we parked at the farm and crossed the squelching fields in the driving rain and got thoroughly soaked! When we arrived at the monument the first thing we saw was that the southern road actually leads right up to the tomb! When we drove back past this road we saw the sign to the tomb, which is placed behind a tree when you approach from the main road .... super!
Anyway .. the tomb. The courtyard is one of the most impressive that I have ever been to. It is almost square not curved like most, creating a very tight (yet expansive) ritual area. The stones that form this are monsters.
The gallery is quite short and consists of just 2 chambers separated by a low sill stone. These were filled with water to a depth of 30cm or so.
Around the back of the gorse covered cairn there is a subsidary chamber that actually goes right across the whole width of the cairn, forming a corridor.
Many other drumlins and mounds surround this tomb and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them also covered other tombs.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Carrowkeel - Cairn E (Co. Sligo) |  Carrowleagh (Co. Mayo) |  Aghnaglack (Co. Fermanagh) |
 Carnagat (Co. Tyrone) |  Browndod (Co. Antrim) |  Eshwary (Co. Armagh) |
