What is recorded here
Round Cairn: Giant's Grave in Sheehinny, County Fermanagh, Ireland, is a prehistoric burial mound where people may have stacked stones to keep a dead body company long after everyone who placed them had forgotten how. The name suggests a giant, but giants are often just a way of admitting that the living cannot picture the dead or the distance between them. A round cairn is simple enough to build and stubborn enough to survive, which is why so much human pride and fear still gather around it.
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 Neolithic or Bronze Age period. It is part of a widespread megalithic tradition in Ireland, often associated with burial and ritual practices.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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