With a chamber 4m long, 1.5m wide and 1.6m tall this tomb would have been one of the largest portal tombs in Ireland. Considering the size of the roofless chamber the portal stones are quite short - a little over 1.8m.
The structure stands behind a newish bungalow at the base of a rocky escarpment and faces southwest. There are traces of a cairn, but the spread is not wide enough to indicate that the tomb was ever covered.
The rock face behind it, the undergrowth around it and on the rock behind do a superb job of hiding this from view, even from the road just 50m away. It is worth a visit though, but I would have liked to have seen it when this little corner was devoid of all the new houses.
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