I imagine that this was once a pleasant little spot ... then the foresters arrived. Apart from being surrounded by pine trees, which obscure the views an area of ground around the tomb has been bulldozed, removing at least 18 inches of soil/peat from around the tomb. What archaeology went with that lot?
The monument itself is quite good. Two very thick sidestones and a slightly displaced backstone support a single roofslab. A leaning stone to the front (west) of the gallery may be the doorstone. There must have been another roof slab at one point, perhaps just a thin lintel type stone.
The inside of the gallery has been dug out to at least 1m below the surrounding ground level. If this is to the old floor level then this would have stood nearly 2m tall! The remains of the gallery are 2m long and about 1m wide.
From on top of the roofslab one landscape feature is very visible and impressive to the southeast - the Slieve Felim Mountains in County Limerick.
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