This site has always looked as if it may be tricky to get to, but I thought I'd have a go today. It couldn't be easier. It's just 100m into a field from the road.
With these site you never know what to expect and Tyrone/Derry stone circles tend to be made of small stones. This often makes locating them difficult, especially if they're in boggy, peat covered ground. Luckily these are in pasture, so you can't miss them.
The first circle you see as you walk up the field is the finest of them. This is 12m in diameter and formed with an almost solid ring of low stones. Two large stone around 1.5m high stand opposite each other set into the north and south arcs of the circle.
Next up the field is half a circle. This has been truncated by the field boundary and has a small tangential stone row next to it, similar to the one at Drumskinny (County Fermanagh). When I looked over the ditch into the next field to see if there was anything of the circle on that side I was amazed. The field is bare, but the boundary ditch is lined with scores of stones. If these all came from stone circles and alignments then this place was once huge!
The next monument is similar to those at Beaghmore (County Tyrone): a pair of stone circles with alignments running from where the circles meet. The stone circles are quite ruinous, but still detectable. The best of the rows eminating from it is at least 20m long. There is a possible small cairn, also similar to those at Beaghmore, near to the end of these rows.
Further up the hill there is another ruined circle and an 30m long alignment of large stones. About 100m west of the circles is a lone standing stone.
This truly amazing site is like a mini-Beaghmore in its own right. If Beaghmore hadn't been discovered then this complex would have become a well-known site instead. For that matter it still should be a well known site anyway: it's astonishingly good!
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