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Giants Grave

Wedge tomb

What is recorded here

Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in Magheraghanrush OR Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland. The monument appears as an oval outline on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map near Ballysadare, measuring roughly 27 metres by 15 metres with a north-east to south-west axis.
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 tomb type is significant as part of Ireland's megalithic tradition, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques.

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