What is recorded here

Giants Grave is a portal tomb in Carrickglass, County Sligo, Ireland. The well-preserved structure, known as The Labby, stands in pasture at the head of a narrow valley opening north-west. Its chamber has single stone sides and back, while two tall portal stones and a lower doorstone form the front. A large rectangular roofstone covers the chamber, and two raths lie eighty metres to the south-east.

In pasture at the head of a narrow valley opening to the NW. This well-preserved tomb, known as 'The Labby', faces uphill to the SE. It consists of a chamber (L 2.1m; Wth 0.9m at the front, 1.5m at the rear) with sides and back of single stones. The front of the chamber is formed by two portal-stones (H 1.4m) and a doorstone 0.3m lower than them. The structure is covered by a large rectangular roofstone (L 4.8m; Wth 3.4m; T 1.6m) resting on all the orthostats save the more southerly sidestone. There is peat-growth on top of the roofstone. Two raths (SL034-153----; SL034-154----) lie c. 80m to SE. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 63, no. 102) 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its orientation and preservation provide insight into early megalithic funerary practices in the region.

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