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Giants Grave in Commons

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Located on a small rise in an undulating low-lying pasture. This is a double court tomb with courts facing NW and SE in good repair in a low cairn (dims c. 26m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW). The SE gallery (L c. 7m) has two chambers and the NW (L 3.55m) has only one, but some of the courtstones survive at NW. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 74-5) See the attached views _1 from SE; _2 from NW: The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE029-002

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  • Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791; Ledwich, Edward, 1738-1823, continuator, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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