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The flagpole marks the highest point of Kilknock – the tomb, as is so often the case, is not sited on the summit, but 5 metres below it and 100 metres to the west.
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Brougher mountain, to the left of the hill with the aerials, has 2 stone alignments, a possible megalithic tomb, a standing stone and 2 stone circles.
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The turf, with the aid of plenty of sphagnum, has grown to almost inundate the stones of the chamber.
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The stone in the foreground could be part of chamber outer walling or possibly a kerbstone.
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Aligned NE-SW, the modern wall, probably using stone from the covering cairn, crosses the front of the chamber.
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A metre tall, a metre and a half wide.
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Two orthostats from the main tomb. Another couple of months and nothing will be visible.
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Marked as ‘standing stones’ on the OS map, this arrangement is possibly the wall of a chamber of a second tomb. The main, overgrown tomb is under the gorse at the top of the hill.
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There may be two chambers in the gallery of the tomb, but it was hard to figure out.
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The front of the tomb is to the right – it’s mostly wrecked.
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Which came first? Well, the tree actually – the stone is one of a pair, bulldozed and buried in a ditch; then this one was dug up and re-erected here by the farmer, not its original position.
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Quite a substantial stone, but not in its original position, and without its partner.
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Towards the south-east corner of an old graveyard and church.
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The ground rises to the left in the distance towards the summit of Sliabh Beagh.
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Small circle stone on the west arc of the main mound.
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Low winter sun over the Mound of the Hostages.
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I was surprised by the extent of the informative board, even if some of the info is a tad skewed.
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Looking south – the two shaped sides on show here.
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Sweetly situated on the highest part of the field.
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500 metres south of Mayobridge is the Long Stone.
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Looking north-west at the 3.1 metre tall Long Stone.
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It’s quite messy on top of Croob, made up for by the fantastic views, and the large but damaged cairn.
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The cairn has spilled away down the east side of the summit.
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The south and east sides of the cairn fall away quite steeply. This shot is taken from the south-east.
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Looking north from below the cairn. The top of Slieve Croob has been much messed about with down through the years.
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