Gleann Cholm Cille is famous for its "Turas", the journey, the path that people follow from one station to the other one during their pilgrimage done between June 9th and August 15th. The round of the stations is about 3 km long. The stations are both in the village and outside the village.
This is the 11th station of the Turas. It's a cairn in a messy condition, hidden behind a hedgerow. Luckily it is signposted at the small gateway within a dry stone wall, along the road leaving the village of Gleann Cholm Cille to the east.
Probably the cairn once had a cross pillar on top of it, but today it's just a pile of stones. Something that might look a pillar is set vertically in the ground behind the cairn and I had the impression of seeing a faint cross carved on it, but probably it was only a sensation.
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