What is recorded here

Two overlapping stones still lean inside a field bank in County Monaghan, perhaps one side of a gallery buried beneath soil and forgetting. The 1907 map called it a Giant’s Grave in gothic lettering, giving the ruin a name bigger than its remaining shape. A hundred and fifty metres away, a separate cairn waits in the low landscape, suggesting the grave belonged to a larger chamber now lost.

Located in a low-lying landscape on a slight S-facing slope. It is represented only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Giant’s Grave’. It is very ruined and consists of two overlapping stones that are incorporated in the S face of a WNW-ESE field bank and probably represent one side of a gallery. The cairn (MO013-022----) is c. 150m to the SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

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