It was here that I met a very knowledgeable farmer who told me a lot about the surrounding valley and its antiquities. I'll mention the ones I didn't manage to find here before talking about this monument. In the valley below there is a good fullacht fia. Above that is a very prominent hill with an artificial flat top known as Cashel Mor, which has a hill fort on its top. To the west of the valley is a very round-topped hill that really does stand out amongst its neighbours called Crockshee - The Hill of the Fairies. The slopes around the tomb are covered in mini-cairns, prehistoric walls and enclosures. There is also an odd structure at the top of the hill that consists of an oval enclosure with a dividing wall two thirds of the way along it. At the base of Crockshee there is a structure known locally as The Druids' Altar. This was described to me as being a flat stone set upon several others, so it maybe a cist or a collapsed tomb.
This monument (my 100th court tomb!) has been incorporated into the wall of a large oval enclosure (one of a pair that doesn't include the one mentioned above). There are several stones remaining of the north arm of the court and two large jambs lead into a 7m long gallery. The gallery is aligned northwest-southeast with the entrance at the northwest. The gallery aligns with the flat-topped hill mentioned above.
The gallery is divided into probably three sections, but some of the jambs are lost. Despite being built into a drystone wall quite a lot of the cairn survives, especially in the inside of the enclosure, which is most odd. This makes me think that the enclosure is very old and the cairn may not have been disturbed at all for building material.
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