What is recorded here

Giants Grave is a court tomb in Kilgarve (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The site holds the remains of a segmented gallery with surviving jamb stones and sidestones for two chambers. These stones sit within a rectangular grass-covered stony mound on a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin.

On a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. The remains of a segmented gallery (dims 4m NW-SE; 2.5m NE-SW) of which the two jamb stones and some sidestones on the SW side survive of the outer chamber. A jamb stone leading to a second chamber to the NW and one sidestone on the SW side of this chamber also survive. These are situated within a rectangular grass-covered stony mound (dims 17m NW-SE; 8m-10m NE-SW; H 0.5m). (deValera and O'Nuallain 1972, 31) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. Its partially surviving segmented gallery and portal stones reflect early megalithic funerary architecture in the region.

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