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Giants Grave

Court tomb

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Giants Grave is a court tomb in Creevymore, County Sligo, Ireland. It appears as an oval outline measuring twenty-seven by fifteen metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. The feature disappeared when railway construction levelled the ground 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) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 9 January 2012
Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of the megalithic tradition in northwest Ireland, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques.

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