Megalithic graves in Cloone.

Here and there amoung rocks scattered around the lower slopes of a hill rising from a narrow valley in the townlands of Mountida and Sunnaghmore, about 1½ miles south-east of Cloone village are a number of ancient chamber graves, most of the type formed by three stones leaning together leaving one side open. Unfortuneately most of the stones have been broken but two of the graves are fairly well preserved. One of them in the townland of Mountida consists of two large flat stones leaning towards each other, edge to edge forming a sort of "bivouac" about five feet high by about ten feet high with a third stone forming a sort of gable at the end. It is locally called "Diarmuid and Grania's bed" and legend in the district recounts the story of the flight of Diarmuid and Grania with it.
Another known as the 'Giant's grave' is a large roughly rectangular chamber measuring about tewnty feet long by about nine feet wide, opening from a sort of porch at its west end. The latter is formed by two long flat stones placed on edge so that their outer ends are closer together than the inner ones. A low kerbstone divides this from the large chamber in the centre of which lies a large flat flag-stone, apparently a capstone which has slipped down between the side walls.
The monuments are several hundered yards from the nearest country road.

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