This was (eventually) a pleasant surprise. Why eventually? Because it is marked on the map in the wrong place!
But what a great place it actually is! Apart from the displace capstone the tomb is intact. The capstone has just been tipped off to one side, and it's massive. Both of the portal stones and all of five of the stones forming the chamber are in situ. The righthand portal stone has split into two parts, so perhaps it is best that the weight of the enormous stone has been removed from it.
The tomb is incorporated into a field all and some quirky steps lead up the wall and then down between the 1.4m high portal stones. There is no doorstone. Two 70cm high stones form each side of the 2m long chamber, which is finished off by a low backstone.
This is a remarkably good monument, especially for Monaghan.
If you want to try to find it then ask at the white farmhouse on the brow of the hill, the tomb is located just behind their garden and not on the side of the road some 200m away as the OS maps indicate.
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