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Giant's Grave is a court tomb located near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Court tombs are communal burial monuments built during the Neolithic period, typically between 3500 and 2800 BC. They are characterised by a façade of standing stones that frames an open court, leading to one or more burial galleries within. These monuments served as focal points for ritual activity and the interment of multiple individuals across generations, reflecting the social organisation of early farming communities in Ireland.
The monument sits on bedrock formed from the Tyrone Group, a geological sequence comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with subordinate deposits of chert, coal and conglomerate. This mixed lithology provided the local stone resources available to Neolithic builders and continues to shape the surrounding landscape. The site's position in upland Tyrone reflects the pattern of Neolithic settlement in this region.
Giant's Grave is now recorded and protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference number 14897. Like other court tombs in the Irish Neolithic tradition, it represents an important archaeological monument relating to the early development of settled farming societies and monumental burial practices in the Irish landscape.
Giant's grave. court tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14897. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a court tomb located near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14897.
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 14897.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cloghanachorite, cloghnachorite. boulder with hollows (0.3 km), Counterscarp rath (0.3 km), Platform rath (0.5 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 Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.