What is recorded here
Giants Grave is a court tomb in Streedagh, County Sligo, Ireland. The site appears as an oval outline measuring roughly twenty-seven by fifteen metres on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. It disappeared during nineteenth-century railway construction, leaving no physical remains for later observers to examine.
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, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of Sligo's rich megalithic landscape, 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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