What an amazing place! This is mentioned in Burl's gazetteer as being a stone circle, but it's hard to decide, because it lies around an odd mound giving the impression that it may contain a cairn. Certainly the 'mound' in the middle is made of rubble type rocks.
It is an ovoid structure with its main axis east-west. There is a fantastic stone on the north east corner that is a granite block with a sloping top facing outwards. This sloping face is covered in a layer of quartz. As this faces north east the summer solstice sunrise must have shone off this face when the quartz covering was more complete. It would appear that the stone faces towards either Howth, Lambay or somewhere in between the two. It must be a truly spectacular site to watch the sunrise from here. This I think may be next year's goal.
Continuting this north east line to the opposite side of the 'circle' you come to the only pointed stone in the group. This adds emphasis to the importance of this alignment. This stone seems (from its colouring) to have an iron content.
There is another great stone in the group which is a quartz conglomerate, a ttype of stone that I have not encountered in the Wicklows before.
This is just 30m from the mound on Knockanvinidee and so shares the same views. These take in the Sligo mountains, Loughcrew, Tara, Slieve Gullion and the Mournes.
There is no doubt in my mind that this site had major signficance in the Dublin area. It is still a great place and a great experience.
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_I don't think I can add anything to what I said on my previous visit! This is a wondeful monument.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Corn Hill (Co. Longford) |  Poulawack (Co. Clare) |  Cairn Y (Co. Meath) |
 Crohaun (Co. Waterford) |  Keadeen (Co. Wicklow) |  Cairns P1, P2, Q (Co. Meath) |
