What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a court tomb in Barnacoghil, County Sligo, Ireland. It appears as an oval outline measuring roughly 27 metres by 15 metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. The feature vanished from the ground, most likely levelled during nineteenth-century railway construction.
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). Its significance lies in its association with early megalithic funerary practices in the Sligo region, reflecting the cultural and ritual landscape of Neolithic Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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