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Giants Grave

Megalithic tomb

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Giants Grave is a megalithic tomb in Clooneen (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The site appears as an oval outline measuring roughly twenty-seven by fifteen metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. Its long axis ran north-east to south-west across gently rolling lowland near Ballysadare. The mound is no longer visible because railway construction likely levelled it during the nineteenth century.
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, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). This tomb is significant as part of Ireland's megalithic tradition, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques in the Sligo region.

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