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Giants Grave in Killinaparson

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The site, in a clear-felled area of forest, lies just uphill from a stream on the W slope of Barradoos Mountain which is on the N side of the Slieve Bloom range. A stone, 2.30m long, 70cm thick and 70cm high, aligned N-S, seems to be set. Alongside to the W are four prostrate stones measuring 1.50m to 2.10m in maximum dimension and a fifty partly-buried. There may have been some form of megalithic structure here but its nature is notknown. According to a local story the stones were dislodged by the soldiery in 1798. (de Valera and O Nuallain 1972, 97, No. 1.).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA006-001

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Digital Eye, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Picture: offaly.gaa.ie
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