Cregganconroe

Nearest town:
Emyvale (31km SSE)
Latitude:
54° 37' 15.31 N
Longitude:
6° 59' 38.36 W
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Image of Cregganconroe (Stone Circle) by ryaner

One of the small circle stones in the foreground.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Sep 30, 2020
Image of Cregganconroe (Stone Circle) by ryaner

Looking north. The alignment runs left to right in this shot. The circle is hidden in the grass and rushes behind it.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Sep 30, 2020

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Cregganconroe

ryaner
ryaner Sep 30, 2020

This site is marked as a Megalithic Complex that includes a stone circle, an alignment and a cairn. It’s fairly typical of quite a few sites in this part of Tyrone – it was discovered after peat-cutting á la Beaghmore – but in its present, overgrown condition is hard to interpret and probably best bypassed on your way to the superb Creggandevesky court tomb.

What can be seen is a raised, roughly circular area about 20 metres in diameter, 1.5 metres or so above the surrounding terrain. On the southern flank of this is the alignment, the most visible of the monuments. It tangentially abuts the circle to its north. The 11 stones of the circle were barely visible on the day we were there, summer growth inundating them.

The terrain in the area is wild and rugged, a small outcrop of hilly rock immediately to the south. West of this is a small lake. 300 metres east-south-east is the aforementioned Creggandevesky court tomb.

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