From the road, the chamber sidestones on the south side of the tomb are now part of the roadside verge. There are two visible here, behind the entrance jambstone. The northern side of the tomb survives better, eventually meeting the roadside verge further to the left of this shot, but that side is very overgrown.
Close-up of the chunky entrance jambs and the rather large lintel gives this a classic dolmen/portal tomb look, but it’s actually a fairly substantial court tomb, minus the court.
Looking south-west. I’m surprised this is not more well known.
The backstone, or dividing stone, of the two tombs. This is said to be similar to Aghanaglack in nearby Fermanagh where there is just a single stone separating the chambers of back-to-back court tombs. Nearby Cohaw has a subsidiary, box-like chamber as a divider, with both tombs having separate backstones.
Some court stones and the jambstones of the entrance to the western tomb.
The chamber of the eastern tomb in this back-to-back dual court tomb.
A pano showing that a lot of the cairn material remains in the mound. This is another of the tombs that we visited today in early February that would not be worth visiting later in the year. As it is, there is so much vegetation here at this time that what is a reasonably substantial tomb is barely visible.
Outer walling on the south side of the tomb in the foreground. The tomb is still embedded in a large amount of its cairn.
Looking east over the roofstones. I think the two main ones here were once one, now split.
Masses of vegetation here, looking north over the facade.
Looking east over the facade. The leaning stone is the portico stone.
Facade stones at the north side of the east-west aligned tomb.
If you were to visit this site, now’s the time of year as it would be completely overgrown very soon. This stone is part of the portico with the facade behind it.
Ruined portal tomb, its chamber aligned NW-SE, this view is looking north-east. The tall stone is the remaining standing portal, the stone to its right is supposed to be the other, fallen, portal resting on a chamber sidestone. The stone in the foreground is possibly the remains of the smashed capstone.
Looking east. The old shot in the 1972 published Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Vol. III shows a much less overgrown arrangement of stones.
What looks like any old field clearance is actually a continuous line of three socketed orthostats and some loose boulders.
Looking west from the ‘back’ of the megalithic tomb.
Cupmarks on the most westerly stone. I haven’t seen these mentioned in any of the published literature.
It really is messy here, alongside the pristine, newly-laid farm track. Looking roughly north-west.
Could be the rear of the chamber in an east-west aligned wedge tomb.
Britain’s favourite monument is stuck in the middle of a bad-tempered row over road traffic. By Charlotte Higgins
Published: 06:00 Friday, 08 February 2019
Stonehenge, with the possible exception of Big Ben, is Britain’s most recognisable monument. As a symbol of the nation’s antiquity, it is our Parthenon, our pyramids – although, admittedly, less impressive. Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, recalls that when he took a group of Egyptian archaeologists to see it, they were baffled by our national devotion to the stones, which, compared to the refined surfaces of the pyramids, seemed to them like something hastily thrown up over a weekend.
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Looking east over the collapsed northern sidestone that covers the floor of the chamber, out through the two portals. One of those sites that are barely worth visiting and exceedingly difficult to photograph, but bloodymindedly you do anyway.
Looking south over the chamber, the northern pointy portal on the left, with its southern counterpart behind it. The northern sidestone has collapsed into the chamber, the southern one incorporated into a field boundary. There’s no sign of the capstone.
The ruins of an east/west aligned portal tomb. This shot is looking east out between the portal stones.
Survey work by David Strange-Walker of Trent & Peak Archaeology and Marcus Abbott of ArcHeritage. Thanks to Dr Steve Davis of University College Dublin, and the Office of Public Works, Ireland, for funding this project.
The landowner here is very proud of what he has on his land. There’s even a sign on the gate into the field announcing the presence of the Kilgraney Dolmen. The structure here is badly collapsed however. I struggled to identify any of the orthostats but I’m sure they have been plundered down through the years as there are distinct quarry marks on two of them. The babbling stream not 5 metres away from the monument is soothing. Access is downhill from the aforementioned farm gate and visitors are welcome.
The collapsed capstone of this portal tomb is very substantial.
Sturdy, blocky pillar, one of two in this townland along with three rock art panels.
Officially classified as a portal tomb, I have my doubts. Reminds me of this: themodernantiquarian.com/site/6381/knockbrack.html
Looking west. the summit of Knockroe is off to the left out of shot.
Carving on the capstone. Quite worn but quite modern looking too.
South-east from ‘behind’ the monument with Cloroge More in Wexford in the near distance. There would be views all the way to the sea in this direction on a clear day.
Like it’s about ready to take off from the side of the mountain.