Giants Grave in Dunmaurice, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins with a small pot lough (diam. c. 100m) c. 150m to the E. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Giants Grave’. Two orthostats support a lintel, which could be interpreted as the entrance to a court tomb (de Valera 1960, 131). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 June 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO019-021

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Fintan McTiernan, courtesy of Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Maker not stated on source page, irishheritagenews.ie
Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Fintan McTiernan / Monaghan GAA official Flickr, www.flickr.com

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