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Eagles' Knoll Cairn is a Neolithic passage tomb situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Also known locally as a giant's grave, this megalithic monument represents one of the principal types of communal burial architecture constructed during the Neolithic period. The tomb comprises a stone-built passage leading to a burial chamber, characteristic of monuments erected between approximately 4000 and 3000 BCE across the island of Ireland. Such structures served as focal points for ancestor veneration and ritual activity within early farming communities.
The monument occupies land underlain by the Tyrone Group bedrock, a varied sequence of Visean-aged sedimentary rocks including limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert and coal. This geological substrate would have provided suitable stone for the cairn's construction, whilst the local landscape offered material and a prominent location for the tomb's placement. The positioning of passage tombs often reflected topographical significance within the Neolithic settlement pattern.
Eagles' Knoll Cairn is protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 10042. It remains an important archaeological record of Fermanagh's Neolithic occupation, offering evidence of the monumental construction capabilities and burial practices of communities living in the region over five thousand years ago.
Eagles' knoll cairn, giant's grave. passage tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10042. View the official record →
Eagles' Knoll Cairn is a Neolithic passage tomb situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10042.
Eagles' knoll cairn, giant's grave. passage tomb dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Eagles' knoll cairn, giant's grave. passage tomb is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 10042.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St. lasser's cell. souterrain (6.7 km), Rath (6.9 km), Dual court tomb (7.5 km).
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Eagles' knoll cairn, giant's grave. passage tomb stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.