What is recorded here

Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in Cannaghanally, County Sligo, Ireland. The monument appears as an oval outline on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map, measuring roughly 27 metres by 15 metres with a north-east to south-west axis. It disappeared from the ground entirely, 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; dates to the Neolithic period, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. This tomb type is significant as it reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic construction in Ireland.

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