The north’s most photogenic dolmen

The Legananny Dolmen is located on the southwest side of Slieve Croob in Co. Down and has commanding panoramic views over the Mourne Mountains. This is one of the most photographed and rarely visited stone monuments in Ireland. Its capstone is 10 feet long and its supporting stones are nearly 7 feet high and have been likened to a coffin held high by its pallbearers. The stones below it are probably the remains of a cairn that once covered it and there were reports of an urn being found in the chamber underneath the tomb. During the Iron Age, it has been suggested that it was used as a Druid’s Altar – this was 2000 years after it was originally built!