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ROUND CAIRN: GIANT'S GRAVE in Aghatirourke

ROUND CAIRN: GIANT'S GRAVE

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Mortons has spent centuries demanding proof from a dead giant. Aghatirourke offers a round cairn instead, preserving the shape of the grave while refusing the name of the victim. That absence is not a gap in the story; it is the story. The giant may have been a king, a monster, a man or a mistake, but the stones still mark the place where people believed the extraordinary had fallen.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ROUND CAIRN: 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.
Round cairn, dating to the Bronze Age. It is part of a widespread megalithic tradition and may have functioned as a burial monument or ceremonial site.

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