212 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
The Castleforward cupped table stone is locally known as the 
‘‘Giant’s Grave.”’ Some fifty years ago, or thereabouts, the table was 
broken in two, and nearly half of it taken away; now the remaining 
portion is lying close by, while the supporting pillars have been 
undermined and tumbled about by people digging after rabbits. 
About three miles east of Letterkenny, in the townland of Trim- 
ragh, immediately adjoining the old south shore line of Lough Swilly, 
but now separated from it by a large tract of ‘‘ intakes,” is a large 
stone called the ‘‘ Giant’s Rock.” A portion of this is said to have 
been quarried away by a man who had a contract on the new road from 
Letterkenny to Derry ; but the piece is lying alongside as if detached 
by frost. But on the remaining surface, which slopes nearly due 
east, there are, on one portion, six cups called the ‘‘ Giant’s Finger- 
holes.’’? These are arranged so as to form two equally-sized equilateral 
triangles; while on another, and slightly raised portion of the surface, 
there is one cup. About one hundred yards due east is a large flat 
stone called the ‘‘ Giant’s Grave,’’ on which are two cups, while in its 
vicinity, on a rock surface zm situ, are two or more cups, and ona 
smaller stone, about fifty yards to the south, is one cup, about two 
hundred yards 8. W. of the ‘‘ Giant’s Rock”’; and likewise on the old 
shore of Lough Swilly there was an ancient church, the site of which 
has been covered up by the new railway embankment. 
1'The Donegal giants seem to have had six fingers, besides thumbs, as the 
“‘siant finger-holes’’ that have since been pointed out have each seven cups. 
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