At over 720m above sea level this is one of the highest monuments I've been to. To add to the fun (and by that I mean pain) of reaching it the nearest road is 2km away and 400m below! To make it worse I was here with a friend, Derek, who isn't a man ... he's half wellington boot, half mountain goat! There was I huffing, puffing and pausing for smoking my way up the mountain and Derek was almmost sprinting up it in wellington boots. I need to give up smoking.
The cairn isn't quite on the summit of the hill, but 50m to the south of it. At the highest point there is a rocky outcrop that has split up in to fantastical arrangements of cuboid blocks due to erosion and weathering.
The cairn is much robbed. The stones have been arranged around the edge of teh monument to provider shelter for walkers. The hollow in the centre is very deep and there may be a filled up cist at the bottom. If the bottom of the dip is the old ground level then the peat here is at least 1.5m deep.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Cairn X1 (Co. Meath) |  Scartnadrinnymountain (Co. Waterford) |  Murnells (Co. Tyrone) |
 Ballymacgibbon (Co. Mayo) |  Athgreany Cairns (Co. Wicklow) |  Knockannavea (Co. Dublin) |
