Giants Grave in Cornaville North, court tomb in County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope. A subrectangular cairn (dims 40m NW-SE: 15m NE-SW) incorporates at the NW end the remains of the gallery of a three chambered court-tomb (L 6.3m; Wth 2.3m). A single court stone is exposed to the N of the entrance jambs. (Eogan 1958, 179-81) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME001-005

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