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Giant's Grave is a court tomb situated near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic megalithic monument belongs to the class of passage tombs characterised by a central court area from which burial chambers open, typically aligned along the monument's long axis. The structure exploits the local bedrock of the Tyrone Group—a complex geology of limestone, mudstone and sandstone interspersed with siltstone—which provided suitable stone for construction. Court tombs of this type date to the Neolithic period and served as communal burial places for Early Farming communities.
The site benefits from protection under the Historic Environment Division's scheduling system. The surrounding landscape of mid-Tyrone, with its mixed geology, would have been settled by Neolithic peoples who utilised both natural stone and cultivated clearings amongst the early post-glacial woodland. The monument's construction demonstrates the organisational capacity and labour investment these communities devoted to ritual burial practices, placing their dead within monumental stone structures that would have dominated the local topography for millennia.
Giant's grave, long cairn. court tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14868. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a court tomb situated near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14868.
Giant's grave, long cairn. 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, long cairn. 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 14868.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Counterscarp rath (8.3 km), Counterscarp rath (9.4 km), Stone cross (9.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave, long cairn. 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, long cairn. 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.