Giants Grave in Annaghbrack, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Situated in a low-lying landscape between drumlins, with a small canalised N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is a long and overgrown wedge shaped mound (L 18m N-S; Wth at SE 17m; Wth at NW 9m), much of which appears to be the result of rock outcropping. There are some exposed blocks near the SE end, but no pattern can be discerned. It was listed by de Valera as a possible court-tomb in 1951 (p. 196) but excluded from his list in 1960.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO013-047

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