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Dun Ruadh The best way to describe this site is that it is a ring cairn with a stone circle inside the ring. On my first visit the people who farm the land were very helpful and escorted me up to the cairn on what I can only describe as a really horrible day and I would like to say thank you. On my last visit the weather was much drier. |
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The Cairn is around 30 metres long and contained 13 small burial tombs amongst the stones. Below is a photo of one of these tombs, known as a cist. The stone circle is made up of seventeen orthostats that were originally linked by dry-stone walling. There is an open entrance to the cairn at the South West. If you do visit this site in the winter you will need a good pair of wellingtons boots. |
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Situated: Behind a farmhouse in the Townland of Crouck. From Cookstown take the A 505 West for about 12 kilometres then take a right for Teebane at the T-Junction take a left after about 4 kilometres you will come to Crouck Bridge after another kilometre you will see a white farmhouse with a long driveway, in a field to your right the cairn is in the fields up above the farmhouse. Discovery Map 13: H 623 845. Last visit June 2006. Photos: Jim Dempsey. |
