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Interesting note in the folklore post:

"Also he pointed out that the name for the area Ardcroney means Ard being Big, Croine. And locally that is believed who was found in the mound Ard Croine."

Croineir (with a few accents) is actually the Irish for <i>coroner</i>. If croineir has the same roots as coroner, then it's crown related, but the Irish for crown is <i>coroin</i>. The alternative is that croineir is related to the Greek khronos and time, because chronicle (croinic in Irish) means book of time or book of annals, so a croineir could tell the story of someone's death.

Interesting and curious one.

Thanks for that info, i wondered what the croney part might have meant (Pass Irish in the leaving cert im afraid). I will try and find more folklore hopefully this weekend.

As for the size of the stone it is massive, the archaeological report says that is a glacial erractic maybe that is the reason for locating the tomb here.

Also as i said the proximity to the 'Devils Bit' could be important.