What is recorded here

Stone row in Straths holds one standing stone and scattered slabs beside Ballyliffin, not a proven tomb. Colhoun imagined a wrecked Giant's Grave in 1946, but the overgrown field gives no clearer answer. The real wonder is that people kept returning to ask the stones what they had forgotten.

Colhoun (1949, 115) referred to a 'wrecked megalith near Ballyliffin', which she positioned in Straths townland on page 116 of the same work. Following her, Killanin and Duignan (1962; 1967) also recorded it. A fuller account (Colhoun 1995) identified the site as that in the heading. There is a standing stone here (Lacy 1983), beside which, in 1946, Colhoun noted some partly buried or prostrate slabs that she thought may represent the remains of a collapsed 'Giant's Grave'. There are some large stones scattered around at this location, which is rough and overgrown, but there is no reliable indication that they formed part of a megalithic tomb. Colhoun 1949, 115-16; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 127; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 140; Lacy 1983, 88, no. 487; SMR 1987, 11:6; Colhoun 1995, 39-40; RMP 1995, 11:6. 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

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