I have seen photos of this wonderful place for years now and have always wanted to get close up and see what it is really like, and see how big or small it is. I have also looked at this site many times on the map (not realising that they are one and the same) and thought it looked awkward to get to. Fortunately it isn't at all difficult to reach and is signposted - this one is a national monument and so has public access.
The size? It's a monsterous capstone resting on two tiny stones that form the chamber. The capstone reaches a height of 2m+ and is 2.5m long and 2m wide. There is a massive length of cairn trailing away down the hill towards the sea, with quite a lot of the revetment stones forming its edge. Along with Ballykeel (County Armagh) this has to be one of the finest examples of a long cairn that I have been to yet.
Positioned as it is, at the head of this long pebble beach, the tomb looks like a turtle crawling from the sea to lay eggs at the top - it's been a long climb, over 4000 years!
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| Philip Powell from Athy | |
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Monascrebe (Co. Louth) |  Binn (Co. Donegal) |  Gortnavern (Co. Donegal) |
 The Kempe Stones (Co. Down) |  Scraghy (Co. Tyrone) |  The Rocking Stone (Co. Derry) |
