What a place this is. There are actually three passage tombs in one huge (23m diam.) cairn. Sadly the cairn is robbed out, possibly to build the wall that has been erected around the site for protection (eh?).

I had to shelter from the wind, sorry, gales for a while in the one tomb. Here's what I wrote there.

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Nearly Blown Off Top!!

Now sitting in round chamber next to huge carved bowl, sheltering from the gales outside. Open to the blue sky I sit writing constantly glancing to the 2m x 1m bowl to my right.

The mighty roof slabs lie outside, tipped back, torn from their place to allow access. Why didn't they knock like everyone else? One slab, above the bowl, still tries to do its duty and provide shelter.

Just outside is a kist, a lovely one too, just inside the massive kerb. The kerb stones are huge!!

Two other tombs are trashed - one (south) is a higgledy-piggledy mas of fallen orthostats - the other (west) has a collapsed corbelled roof, its passage still visible, one roof slab in place.

The one I'm sitting in (north) has two roof slabs on its passage. The chamber is made up of 10 or so large orthostats. The Bowl! The bowl again. This is 'magickal'. Was it blood, bones, ashes or water that filled it? What was put in here before the elements claimed it?

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The bowl has a carving on the front that is very hard to make out due to wear and lichen.

If you can brave the incredible winds here then visit Baltinglass Hill and be amazed!

There are actually three passage tombs here, all of different designs.

B1 is a round chamber (2m diam) with walls made up by orthostats.

B2 is possibly cruciform. Hard to tell.

B3 had dry stone walls and a corbelled roof.

The carved bowl in B1 is 2m wide, 1m deep and .5m tall ... and beautiful.

There is also a later cist burial.