What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a megalithic tomb in Ballinphull (tireragh By., Templeboy South Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. The 1838 Ordnance Survey map shows an oval outline roughly 27 metres by 15 metres with its long axis running north-east to south-west.
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Date of upload: 9 January 2012
Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). This type of tomb is significant as it reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic construction in Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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