Every so often you come across a site that is perfect and this is one of those. What a beautiful stone circle this is. Of the eleven stones that make up the circle just one has fallen.
As you walk up the little track that leads from the road and see the circle for the first time you see a low, flat-topped stone opposite you and assume it is the axial stone - an easy mistake to make (I did). A line drawn through this stone from the centre of the circle points directly at a bug scoop in the mountains, so it does seem to mark a definite alignment. However, just to make sure you know which is the real one, the proper axial stone is massively long - over two metres across! To make doubly sure there are two entrance stones set outside the circle opposite this.
The more you look at this one the more amazing it gets. The axial stone points SW (as you would expect) in a Cork/Kerry stone circle. The pseudo axial stone points south. The tallest, most pointy stone marks due east and pointing north there is a squared off stone. Oh, and did I mention that there's a boulder burial in the middle of the circle?
What a beautiful place. The views are amazing and being so remote there isn't a sound in the air to disturb you.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Cashelkeelty 2 (Co. Kerry) |  Derryarkane (Co. Cork) |  Toor (Co. Wicklow) |
 Ballyvackey (Co. Cork) |  Mountdrum (Co. Fermanagh) |  Templebryan (Co. Cork) |
