Giants Grave in Rausker, wedge tomb in County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Situated on the E-facing spine of an E-W drumlin ridge. From a plan by H. G. Tempest made in 1936 (SMR file) this appears to be a wedge-tomb consisting of gallery aligned NE-SW, flanked by two buttresses and a single outer walling stone on the NW side. The gallery (L 3m; Wth 0.7m) has a short portico at SW. Two displaced roof stones lie across the gallery. The structure is incorporated in a mound (L 11m; Wth 5m). It is listed as a wedge tomb (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 131). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 June 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO019-025

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, www.myhighlands.de
Fintan McTiernan / Monaghan GAA official Flickr, www.flickr.com
Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Fintan McTiernan, courtesy of Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com

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