What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a court tomb in Creevymore, County Sligo, Ireland. It appears as an oval outline measuring twenty-seven by fifteen metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. The feature disappeared when railway construction levelled the ground during the nineteenth century.
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 9 January 2012
Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of the megalithic tradition in northwest Ireland, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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