What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in Drum East, County Sligo, Ireland. The site appears as an oval outline measuring roughly 27 metres by 15 metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map.
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. It is one of several megalithic tombs in the Drum East area, reflecting early communal burial practices in the region.
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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