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.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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