What is recorded here

Megalithic tomb in Ballyalbanagh, County Antrim, where giant stones still mark a grave from the prehistoric dark. People may have gathered there to honour the dead, feed the soil or watch the sky, while later listeners invented a giant because ordinary mortality felt too small. The stones do not need a name to be magnificent, nor a giant to be terrible.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEGALITHIC TOMB: GIANT'S GRAVE. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Megalithic tomb, dating to the Neolithic period. It is part of a tradition of prehistoric funerary monuments associated with early farming communities in Ireland.

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