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Giants Grave

Court tomb

What is recorded here

Giants Grave is a court tomb in Formoyle, County Sligo, Ireland. The site appears as an oval outline roughly 27 metres by 15 metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map, but the physical monument disappeared before anyone could examine it.
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 part of a broader megalithic tradition in western Ireland, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques.

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