It was good to finlaly make it to this site. It's another 'tried and failed due to rain' site. This time the weather was perfect.
The condition of the circle was quite a surprise. I had seen a very good picture of this site at Irish Megaliths amongst other places and they look very different.
It's a very unusual thing, but there seemed to be more stones at the site now. It's usually the other way around! Unfortunately, one of the entrance stones has been broken in half at some point in the last 20 years too.
This is an axial stone circle with a pair of entrance stones. The recumbent axial stone is about 1m wide and 60cm high. None of the other stones are much higher, but most of them are lying down (the ones that hadn't used to be there) so it's hard to judge.
The axis seems to be oriented on the low hill near to Bweeng to the northeast. The southwest horizon is formed by a low, flat spur at Uctough. The Boggeragh Mountains dominate the western aspect and the east is open and flat as far as you can see.
It's hard to know where to park to visit this one. I parked at the road junction down the hill to the north and walked the 500 yards or so. The road is nasty, so parking any closer would be a mistake.
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