Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Tullyally, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullyally
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (Site of) (1903)
- Coordinates
- 55.18804, -7.13353
- SMR number
- DG021-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This feature was first shown on the 1849 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Giant's Grave'. There is no trace of it now. It is briefly described in an OS Revision Name Book (1849) as consisting of 'standing flags arranged in an irregular oblong form about 8 feet [c. 2.4m] long'. It had apparently been removed by 1900, as it is described as the 'site' of a Giant's Grave in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book of that time. It seems to have been an artificial feature, possibly some form of megalithic structure, but its precise nature is unclear.
OS Revision Name Book, sheet 21 (1849), 47; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 21 (1900-1901), 21; Colhoun 1949, 116; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 380; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 183; SMR 1987, 21:5; Colhoun 1995, 61; RMP 1995, 21:5.
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
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouse1 mi
- Promontory fort - inland1 mi
- Church2 mi
- Graveyard2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.