What is recorded here

Mourne Park still holds the giant grave, a neolithic court tomb where ancient people laid their dead beside the living sky. The stones may have marked a boundary between the visible world and the dream life of the dead. To walk past it now is to share the same ground as those who first shaped the earth into a chamber for forgetting.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: GIANT'S GRAVE. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Court tomb, Neolithic period. It is part of a broader tradition of megalithic funerary monuments in Ireland, reflecting early ceremonial and burial practices.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.