Burren, county Cavan.
H 080 350 - Sheet 26
Nearest village: Blacklion
NOTE: Burren
comes from the Irish for a stony place, and is a not-uncommon place-name.
This tomb is not in THE Burren of county Clare, where there are dozens of typical
Irish wedge-tombs.
The Giant's Grave is now somewhat lost in a dreary conifer plantation.
Note how two of the front orthostats of the façade lean together to form a triangular
entrance to the antechamber.
A painting of the tomb by
Tommy Barr
Remarkable cups and rings and solution pits on the top surface of the front
roof-stone:
compare with a tomb in SW France.
Click here or on a picture to see another
wedge-tomb in the same townland.
Click
here for more pictures of this wedge-tomb on a fraternal site.