I first heard of this place a couple of years or so ago and it's taken me this long to return to the area. The complex consists of a group of Beaghmore (County Tyrone) type stone circles and associated rows, and several tombs.

There is good parking at the heart of the site and the information boards are pretty good. As the tombs are not in too good a condition they have used pictures of other (better) sites to illustrate them. I'm not sure if the plan of Ballyedmonduff (County Dublin) is really a 'typical wedge tomb', however.

The main board by the car park shows a couple of paths that aren't in place yet, making two of the monuments a bit difficult to locate.

I could tell that someone had recently cleared some of the monuments of their gorse covering, as there were big piles of the stuff close by. All-in-all it's a well-signed, well-maintained site and worth stopping at if you're close by. Unfortunately there are no signs pointing to the site on the roads and, amazingly, there isn't even a sign pointing up the track that leads to the car park!

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