What is recorded here

Giants Grave (1838). is a megalithic tomb in Ballysadare, County Sligo, Ireland. The 1838 Ordnance Survey map shows an oval feature about twenty-seven by fifteen metres with a northeast-southwest axis in gently rolling lowland. Railway construction during the nineteenth century obliterated the site before Wood-Martin described its destruction without knowing its exact form.

This feature, which is indicated only on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, was in an area of gently rolling lowland. It would appear to have been obliterated during railway construction in the 19th century. On the map it is indicated as a feature of oval outline (c. 27m x 15m) with its long axis aligned NE-SW. It is possible that this was some form of long mound or cairn and if so could have contained a court tomb or portal tomb. Wood-Martin (1887-8, 261-2; 1888, 199-200) refers to its destruction but apparently had no information as to its nature. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 97, no. 15) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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