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Giant's Grave is a portal tomb situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic megalithic monument consists of a burial chamber accessed through a distinctive portal entrance, a characteristic design of tombs constructed during the early farming period in Ireland, roughly 3500 to 3000 BC. The monument's stones rest upon bedrock of the Kilskeery Group, a geological formation comprising sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate that would have been quarried locally by Neolithic communities.
Portal tombs served as communal burial places for multiple individuals, likely built by settled farming groups to mark their territorial presence in the landscape. The Fermanagh location places Giant's Grave within a region rich in megalithic monuments, reflecting the concentration of early agricultural settlement across Ulster. The tomb's name reflects the folklore that traditionally attributed such impressive stone structures to giants rather than human effort.
The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 9947, recognising its significance as a rare surviving example of Neolithic monumental architecture. These monuments constitute some of the earliest substantial structures built in Ireland and provide essential evidence for understanding the beliefs, social organisation and burial practices of Ireland's earliest farming communities.
Giant's grave. portal tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9947. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a portal tomb situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9947.
Giant's grave. portal 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. portal 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 9947.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Giants' graves. court tomb (0.7 km), Standing stone (1.4 km), Carnnamoghil. multiple cist cairn (1.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave. portal 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. portal tomb stands on Kilskeery Group, bedrock that formed in the Chesterian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.