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Giant's Grave is a court tomb situated near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Dating to the Neolithic period, this megalithic monument belongs to a distinctive class of passage graves found predominantly in Ulster. The tomb sits upon bedrock formed from Argyll Group deposits laid down in the Neoproterozoic era, comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite stones that would have provided raw material for the monument's construction and surrounded its setting.
Court tombs are characterised by their forecourt or courtyard area, which opens into a burial chamber or series of chambers beyond. These communal burial monuments served the Neolithic communities of northern Britain and Ireland as focal points for ritual and the interment of the dead, typically dating between approximately 4000 and 3000 BC. The architectural sophistication of such tombs reflects the social organisation and labour investment of these early farming societies.
Giant's Grave is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference number 13926, ensuring its preservation for future study and public understanding. The monument remains an important archaeological record of Neolithic settlement and belief systems in the Strabane landscape, contributing to our knowledge of early post-glacial communities in Ireland.
Giant's grave. court tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 13926. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a court tomb situated near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 13926.
Giant's grave. court 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.
Giant's grave. court 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 13926.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Double stone alignment (0.8 km), Kelkirell, cill chairill, kylchyrryll. church & graveyard (1.8 km), Fairy bridge. bridge (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave. court tomb's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Giant's grave. court tomb stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.