Today I headed up to Derry to check out the complex at Ballygroll - court tomb, two wedge tombs, chambered cairn, two stone circles and a few other bits and bobs ... all in a 500m streatch of hilltop. Sadly the peat has started to reclaim the site since it was excavated so many of the monuments are hidden. The main ones are visiible though. Still it was a little on the disappointng side.

Then there were all the missing standing stones I tried to see. More disappointment.

Then ... then there was the randomly visited 'stone circles' I chose off the map to end the day. Holy Rings of Rock Batman! They're like a mini Beaghmore; just sitting there. One glorious stone circle made of low stones, with two opposing 1.5m tall stones. Then half a stone circle, cut off by a field boundary, with a small tangential alignment. Then a pair of circles with a small cairn and two rows coming from where the circles touch. Then a another circle with long tangential row of stones. To make it even more amazing (and sad) the opposite side of the boundary that cuts through the one circle is lined with stones of the same size as those used in the remaining circles. If these all came from destroyed circles then this site would have been HUGE!!

I don't know the townland yet, but I'll add it as soon as I do.