What is recorded here

One chamber, one grave, many bodies. The hill gave up its dead in fragments during quarrying, and the grave disappeared with the rest. What remains is a name on a old map and a warning about how quickly memory loses its shape.

Named 'Giant's Grave' and marked on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a very small circular mound (diam. c. 7m) which was located at the NE end of a steep gravel hill named 'Giant's Hill'. The hill has since been quarried out and no visible surface trace of the monument survives. It was described in 1953 (SMR file) as a ‘low mound surrounded by a ditch and having at or near centre a degenerate chamber or cist, partly exposed’. According to local information, large quantities of unburnt bone came to light during quarrying operations, as well as one ‘small cut headstone’. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 27) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019

A Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE; its name and location suggest it was once part of a broader prehistoric landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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