Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Listicall Lower, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Listicall Lower
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (Site of) (1905)
- Coordinates
- 54.97015, -7.47348
- SMR number
- DG055-008----
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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 is named 'Giant's Grave' on the original OS 6-inch map (1835) and on the revised 6-inch map of 1845-7. There are no visible remains at the site. When Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited here in 1846 he found two set stones amid a spread of loose stones. The taller one measured 2 feet (c. 0.6m) by 11/2 feet (c. 0.45m) by 4 feet (c. 1.2m) high. The other was 2 feet (c. 0.6m) high, 6 feet (c. 1.8m) long and 11/2 feet (c. 0.45m) thick.Unfortunately he did not comment on the positioning of the stones relative to each other. However, he thought that they represented the remains of a 'Giant's Grave'. The feature appears to have been cleared by 1903, the date of the OS 1:2,500 survey of the area, after which it was named 'Giant's Grave (Site of)' on the OS 6-inch map. The nature of the site remains uncertain.
Fagan 1845-8, book 11, 15; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45-6, no. 133; SMR 1987, 55:8; RMP 1995, 55:8.
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
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- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.