Listoghil is now open for visitors to wander in and inspect the centre ‘dolmen’. The interior of the cairn looks incredibly fake, taking away from the rather nice tomb inside, unless you go in the dark that is!
Queen Maeve’s Cairn bathed in an all too brief shaft of sun on an otherwise dull, gloomy day.
There is a court tomb in this photo! The big stone in the foreground is the back stone of the very long chamber and some of the court is visible under the branches of the tree. Nice view though in the evening time.
The mound crowned by its standing stone with some bothersome bullocks for scale
Colours all wrong off the laptop, this one tweaked on home PC.
Sadly overgrown, this circle must have looked fantastic before the hedge beside it started to consume it.
The wonderful warm light of the ‘golden hour’ before sunset, 14/6/06
Looking out to sea, this stone seems a lot older than its ogham inscription and it reminded me of the large pillars at Callanish, this 5.3m stone could well have been an ancient marker for the peaceful harbour just north of this spot.
A rainbow in B&W, sure why not..
The standing monolith, its fallen partner and the remnants of the circle in the background
Looking south, the sae is just visible between the two hills on the top right horizon. Taken early morning 23/5/06.
A fine summer morning at Templebryan
Looking west I think, the amazing scenery on the drive up here may have affected my bearings.
Looking northish, the stone nearest is the axial, furthest away are the portals.
Looking over the portals of the stone circle towards the radial circle. Bizarre.
The radial circle and its prostrate outlier, one of several large slabs flattened into the ground around the site.
A view of this extraordinary site, there is a stone circle in the background here but this is not the ‘stone circle’ proper, its that crazy arrangement of stones in the foreground! Behind this extremely odd five stone circle is a raised radial circle ie. all the stones are set radially from the centre.
Taken from the rear of the tomb, the portals and doorstone are to the right of the capstone which sits on the remains of the chamber.
