What is recorded here
Aghaglassan may hold a vanished giant's grave, but no one has marked the spot or proved the claim. Bonner wrote about a circle of stones in 1972, yet the place has slipped back into the land like a forgotten name. What is missing is not evidence of life, but evidence that the story still belongs anywhere people can touch.
Bonner (1972, 16) has claimed that there is a 'giant's grave…surrounded by a circle of stones laid in the ground' in this townland. It has not been possible to identify this site, the nature of which must remain uncertain.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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