This would have been a beautiful little portal tomb when complete, but even in its somewhat run down condition it's still lovely.
Both portal stones still stand, but are slightly pushed forward by the capstone that now leans against them. They are just 1.4m tall. The half-height doorstone leans out even further and makes the tomb look as though it's poking its tongue out at you as you approach. It made me smile anyway! Perhaps this small defiant jesture made the whoever started to destroy it take pity and leave it standing in the top corner of the field.
None of the wallstones of the chamber survive so it's hard to say which side was the front. The tomb is aligned east-west and could have faced either way. The briiliant capstone leans against the east side giving the impression that that was the back, but it is more likely that the entrance faced east. Why do I say the capstone is 'brilliant"? Because it has about a zillion (I counted them twice!) small cupmarks covering practically the whole of its upper surface.
The views to the west and northwest take in the Atlantic Ocean and to the southeast Muckish Mountain lets no other landscape feature have any say at all. Muckish and its neighbour, Aghla Beg, make a fine pair that lead the eye to Aghla More and Errigal Mountain to the south.
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