Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Eskaheen, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskaheen
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1904)
- Coordinates
- 55.09233, -7.29257
- SMR number
- DG039-003----
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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 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Giant's Grave'. There is no trace of it now. The only information about it is a brief description in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1902), which states that the name on the map 'applies to an indenture in the ground, the sides are composed of large rocks, and covered by a large flat rock'. This feature, the nature of which is unclear, had been removed by 1941 (Colhoun 1995).
OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 39 (1902), 21; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 380; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381;
Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 164; SMR 1987, 39:3; Colhoun 1995, 92, no. 39/5; RMP 1995, 39:3.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.