Giant's Grave

Half a kilometre from the Cavan border, two stone courts still face outward across ordinary pasture, inviting the dead and the living into opposite directions. The southeast gallery stretches seven metres through two chambers while the shorter northwest passage holds one, a rare double arrangement among Ireland’s oldest tombs. Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin measured that asymmetry in 1972, yet the cairn’s broad 26-by-20-metre frame remains easy to underestimate until someone walks between its courts.