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The cairn from the far end, you can kind of make out an a rough shape of it

The cairn, it really is a mess and very hard to make head or tails of it

From up on top of the mound, looking at the banks

Note the ditch is on the inside

Some of the banks surrounding it,

The barrow is in the foreground (hard to pic out) then the fort is in the background, you can make out the fosse

The turning stone

The new information board which is actually quite good

Looks like they have knocked some of the wall, possibly to let people get a better picture of the tomb

I think there is evidence of some working of the hill top to make it more conical to put the standing stone on

Fallen standing stone

How big is Queen Maeves cairn, well thats me below it, its massive

Knocknarea from Carrowmore covered in mist

With Benbulben in the background

The mound at Rathcroaghan

The very long end stone looking east.

Churchquarter with the pouting Mahurslieve in the background.

Profile with a shot of the fallen stone at its base

The stone from a cut away in the bog

Cairn on the summit of Cromwell Hill, its not marked on the OS map so im not sure of its date

This stone is over 2m long and is to one side of the tomb, it would orginally hav been part of it giving an idea of its size

Inside the passage, if you look in the bottom right corner you can see the collasped cap of the rear of the passage

Wide shot of the tomb

The tide comes in swamping the tomb, it the little square shaped stone in the middle of the photo, its actually two uprights and a cap stone. The uprights could be 1m – 1.5m high.

Thought by some to be the anthromorphic face of a person