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Giants Grave

Wedge tomb

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Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in Streedagh, County Sligo, Ireland. The site no longer exists because construction of the railway in the nineteenth century levelled the ground. An 1838 Ordnance Survey map shows an oval outline roughly twenty-seven metres by fifteen metres with its long axis running north-east to south-west. The shape and alignment match a Neolithic long mound or cairn, but whether it contained a court tomb or portal tomb remains unknown because no stones or entrance survived for examination.
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; dates to the Neolithic period, circa 3000–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of Sligo's rich megalithic landscape, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques in northwest Ireland.

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