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COURT TOMB: GIANT'S GRAVE in Carrickmacsparrow

COURT TOMB: GIANT'S GRAVE

What is recorded here

Carrickmacsparrow, County Fermanagh, Ireland. The court tomb called Giant's Grave stands scheduled in the NEOLITHIC and PREHISTORIC landscape. It is a giant only in the way human hands become giant when they carry stone across centuries. The chamber still points toward the field like a finger that stopped mid-sentence.
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. Known locally as the Giant's Grave, it is a scheduled monument reflecting prehistoric burial practices in the region.

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

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