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Giant's Grave

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Giant's Grave
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Giant's Grave at Commons is a double court tomb where two ritual forecourts face outward through ordinary farmland, a form rare enough to suggest the dead wanted entry from both ends. Its southeast gallery stretches toward seven metres with two chambers, while the shorter northwest gallery holds one, still framed by standing court stones. People may have walked that rise for feasts, losses or arguments about who belonged where, while the stones waited patiently for both directions of grief.
Giant's Grave is recorded as a archaeological place in County Cavan. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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