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This feature was first shown on the 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Giant's Grave'. There is no trace of it now. The only information about it is a brief description in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1902), which states that the name on the map 'applies to an indenture in the ground, the sides are composed of large rocks, and covered by a large flat rock'. This feature, the nature of which is unclear, had been removed by 1941 (Colhoun 1995).
OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 39 (1902), 21; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 380; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381;
Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 164; SMR 1987, 39:3; Colhoun 1995, 92, no. 39/5; RMP 1995, 39:3.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed.
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