County: Antrim Site name: 'Giant's Grave', Dunloy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR Ant 22:10 Licence number: —
Author: B.B. Williams, Historic Monuments and Buildings Branch, DOE(NI).
Site type: Site of megalith
ITM: E 701430m, N 918687m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.005412, -6.414442
The megalith had been almost completely destroyed in the 19th century by cultivation, though excavation uncovered indications that it had been a court tomb. Finds of Neolithic pottery and flints, typical of this class of monument, were recovered. A secondary Bronze Age urn burial was also located.
