What is recorded here

Giants Grave is an overgrown wedge-shaped mound in County Monaghan, Ireland, stretching eighteen metres between drumlins with a small canalised stream running ten metres to its east. Much of the structure appears to be natural rock outcropping rather than built stone, though exposed blocks near the south-east end hint at human shaping. The ambiguity between grave and geology gives the place its name and its mystery: a giant may have fallen here, or a person may have simply seen shadow and scale in the landscape and believed the earth had swallowed something large.

Situated in a low-lying landscape between drumlins, with a small canalised N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is a long and overgrown wedge shaped mound (L 18m N-S; Wth at SE 17m; Wth at NW 9m), much of which appears to be the result of rock outcropping. There are some exposed blocks near the SE end, but no pattern can be discerned. It was listed by de Valera as a possible court-tomb in 1951 (p. 196) but excluded from his list in 1960. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 23 February 2018

Wedge tomb; likely dates to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). Its elongated, tapering form is characteristic of wedge tombs found across Ireland, reflecting a significant funerary tradition in the region during the Bronze Age.

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