For some silly reason I had thought that this cairn (The north cairn) was the main one on Slieve Gullion, the passage tomb,but it's not. I don't know where I got that idea from but it doesn't matter, because it did mean that I took the path from the north and walked the 2km to get here. What a beautiful walk! I would do that walk if there were no monuments at the top. The views north as you climb the 380m from the road just keep getting more and more astounding.
The cairn is a low one, about 18m in diameter with a few standing stones set around its circumference. I don't know if these are original features or not. Walking a little way north the landscape gets very moon-like amongst the flat peat bog, with large jagged boulders poking through. Then there's the lake ...
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