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Approximately 7m N of a motte (KK035-038----) on a level shoulder on the E side and at the head of a narrow river valley that runs between the two hills N of Owning. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 249) describes it as being '17ft. [c. 5m] long and about 3ft. [c. 0.9m] wide. Some of the stones are in situ, others fallen, but lying as they fell. . . now generally called the "Giant's Grave"'. The monument was destroyed between 1974 and 1982. Only an E end stone and adjoining N sidestone of a gallery remained in 1974. Two orthostats stood immediately N of this and formed a doubling of the gallery wall. It would seem probable that the monument was a megalithic tomb and interpretation of the remains as the E end of a wedge tomb gallery would not be inconsistent with the evidence. (Prendergast 1967, 91; O'Kelly 1969, 132 (under Curraghmore))
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
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