What is recorded here

Giants Grave is a court tomb in Magheraghanrush OR Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland. The site appears as a 27 by 15 metre oval on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map near Ballysadare, but the ground feature disappeared before W. G. Wood-Martin wrote in the late 1880s.

This court tomb is a National Monument (No. 377) in state ownership. See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1931). Date of upload: 9 January 2012

Court tomb, Late Neolithic period (c. 2500–2000 BCE). This tomb is significant as part of a distinctive funerary tradition in northwestern Ireland, reflecting early communal burial practices and megalithic architecture.

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