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Yet another of Sligo's cairns, Croghaun Cairn is located on a cone-shaped peak in the Ox Mountains 8 km south of Knocknarea. This is a pretty small cairn with a diameter of 7 m and a chamber of less than 2 m in length. The cairn was known locally as another of Diarmud and Grainne's beds. The granite mountain is covered with a thick layer of heather and bog, which has grown since the monument was constructed. One of the reasons that the monument builders were attracted to this hill is that white quartz (see background image) was plentiful here, and much if not most of the quartz used in Sligo in ancient times may have been quarried here. On the equinoxes, Croughan peak casts a dramatic shadow which acts like a sundial, and may touch Doomore cairn at sunset. There is a fine view from the cairn which is about 170 m above sea level. Other prominent sites are Carrowkeel and Kesh Corran, Knocknashee and Muckelty Hill, Doomore Cairn nearby, Knocknarea, Carrowmore and Cairns Hill, and the group of cairns on Sliabh Da Ean to the east.

Looking south-east from Croughan to the Bricklieve Mountains. Lough Arrow and the notch formed by Doonaveeragh would act as rising sighting positions for the extreme rising lunar standstills.