What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in Lugdoon, County Sligo, Ireland. It appears as an oval outline measuring roughly twenty-seven by fifteen metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map, with its long axis running north-east to south-west. The monument is no longer visible on the ground, most likely levelled during nineteenth-century railway construction, leaving no physical remains for later examination.
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 Sligo area, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques in northwest Ireland.
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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