Giants Grave

Situated on a hillock in undulating countryside. The monument, greatly ruined, consists of a mound 26m long, 7m wide and 0.75m high incorporating two lengths of gallery structure 7m apart. The mound has been extensively dug in the gap between both. In the western half of the mound the surviving gallery is 5.5m long and almost 2m wide. Two chambers can be recognised here, one to the W, 3.5m long, and the other largely destroyed. At the E end of the mound only two contiguous stones, apparently the N side of a gallery, remain. The overall length of the orthostatic structure would suggest that this was a dual court tomb. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 117, No. 16) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period. Its elongated mound and gallery structure suggest a significant ceremonial or funerary function in an early communal society.