Leabthacha Dhiarmada is Ghrainne
“Giants’ Graves are also known as court cairns or gallery graves and were constructed in the neolithic period. They generally consist of a long gallery, subdivided with a forecourt at one end and are composed of and capped by enormous stones. The layout of the tombs often bears a striking similarity to the human body, chambers and walls designed such that the tomb becomes an symbol of the god or goddess. To enter the tomb is to return to the cosmological world.
The drama of Finn, Diarmuid and Grainne is compelling and the myth was carried forward into the later tale of Tristan and Isolde and the still later lore of Arthur and Guinevere which survives to the present day. However, according to scholar P. MacCana, the Fenian story is itself an echo of the earlier proto-Celtic relationship between the dark, underworld god Diarmaid Donn and the sun goddess Grainne, who is another aspect of the goddess Áine. The bright Grainne embraced the dark under-earth and the product of their union is the golden, singing swords of wheat which stave off the hunger of mankind.
The hilltop sidhe home of Diarmaid Donn is found in County Limerick, Ireland, about 12 miles from Lough Gur at Cnoc Firinne. Áine, the goddess of Ireland, resides at Lough Gur and whispers of her can still be found there in the plentiful neolithic monuments. In her bright aspect she is Grainne whose sidhe home is Cnoc Greine, also in the vicinity of Lough Gur.
Dating from approximately 2600 BC, a Giants’ Grave known in the locality as “Leabthacha Dhiarmada is Ghrainne” (the bed of Diarmaid and Grainne) exists near the south shore of Lough Gur.”
— Old Ways Return Again in Place Names of the Celtic World By C. Austin
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