What is recorded here

Knockroe holds a giant flat stone resting on two smaller blocks, shaping a table large enough for several people to sit beneath. Whether humans built it or water and time simply broke the land open remains unknown. The local name suggests people imagined giants eating there, turning uncertain rock into a place where the extraordinary becomes ordinary.

The site is listed in the SMR (1986) and RMP (1995) as a megalithic tomb. The remains consist of a boulder (L 3.5m; Wth 2.3m; T 0.6m), resting in an almost horizontal position on a large centrally placed block (L 1.1m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.9m) and a second upright (L 1.2m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.65m) on the SE side. It is known locally as the “Giant’s Table”. The nature of this feature is uncertain and it cannot, on present evidence, be accepted as the remains of a megalithic tomb: it may well be entirely natural. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload/revision: 1 April 2019

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