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Giants Grave in Longfield

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Located towards the bottom of a steep S-facing slope, with the headwaters of a small SE-NW stream c. 40m to the S. It is depicted as a small hachured feature and described as a ‘Giant’s Grave’ only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown cairn (dims 12m N-S; 7m E-W; H 1m) with three upright stones protruding from it 2m inside the W edge. The stones area contiguous and from the S these are (dims 0.75m x 0.15m; H 0.3m; 0.5m x 0.25m; H 0.45m; 0.55m x 0.35m; H 0.95m). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 85-6) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE030-011

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  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Willie Donnellan / Leitrim Observer, www.leitrimobserver.ie
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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