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How to view_Re: Giant's Grave (Co. Wicklow) by bat400 on Wednesday, 24 July 2019

See my edit in the main text. I recommend parking at the Moneytown school and walking down to the pasture gate to view the stones. An electric line through the pasture decreases the ambiance somewhat.

National Monument's service states:
Class: Megalithic structure
Townland: PARKMORE (Newcastle By.)
SMR No.: WI024-007----
'Situated on a gentle N-facing slope 130m NNW of a cairn (WI024-006----). Two substantial standing stones (NW stone - H 1.07m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.66m; SE stone - H 1.4m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.8m) stand 7.8m apart at either end of a mound of earth and large stones (dims. 10.3m NNW-SSE x 4m NNE-SSW; H 0.3-0.7m). (Price 1967, 510) Described by Price (1934, 40-1) as ‘the monument in the townland of Parkmore, which is called "Giant's Grave" on the Ordnance map, consists of two pillar-stones standing 26 feet [7.9m] apart. The taller of the two is 5 feet 3 inches [1.6m] high, and its greatest width is 3 feet [0.9m]; the other stands to the W.N.W. of it, and is 4 feet 3 inches high [1.3m], and about 2 feet [0.6m] square.'
'I know of no tradition concerning this monument’.

Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road