What is recorded here

No giant is named, but the grave still stands in the Donegal field. It appears on the oldest local survey and in the early county records as a real burial place, not a invented story. The stones are gone or hidden now, yet the name preserves the shape of the loss. A giant may have fallen there, or a family may have buried someone so large in memory that they became a giant.

This feature was first shown on the 1845-7 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The only information about it is contained in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1903), where it is described as a 'supposed Giant's Grave' marked by a spread of boulders. There is now no trace of any boulders at the site nor any visible remains of a monument of any kind. OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 70 (1905), 50; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47, no. 149; SMR 1987, 70:43; RMP 1995, 70:43. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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