What is recorded here

Dunbin Big held a rectangular mound called The Giant's Grave, though local memory suspected an ordinary modern burial. That ambiguity gave the earthwork life, framing human death inside a larger story. Then a bulldoer erased it in 1965, removing even the chance to test whether giant or person lay beneath. What remains is a hole in the landscape, big enough to swallow certainty itself.

Rectangular mound. Though formerly known as 'The Giant's Grave', local information suggests that it may have been a modern grave. Bulldozed in 1965, its precise location is not known. (CLAJ 1932, 496, 499) The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

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