Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cranford, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cranford
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.14158, -7.70924
- SMR number
- DG027-031----
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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
There is no trace of this feature, which was named 'Giant's Grave' on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown but not named on the 1848-9 edition. It is mentioned in an OS Name Book (1835), but no details are provided about what it may have been.
OS Name Book, Kilmacrenan parish (1834-5), book 1, 19; Borlase 1897, 231, Kilmacrenan no. 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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.