What is recorded here
This feature was first shown on the 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Giant's Grave'. There is no trace of it now. The only information about it is a brief description in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1902), which states that the name on the map 'applies to an indenture in the ground, the sides are…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG039-003
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.thecollector.com
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.isle-of-mull.net
- Greg Clarke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
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