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Giant's Grave is a Bronze Age megalithic complex near Omagh, comprising a stone circle, linear alignment and cairn. The monument sits upon bedrock of mafic igneous rock, part of an unnamed Ordovician to Silurian intrusion that formed during the Silurian period. This geological foundation of dark, heavy stone reflects the ancient builders' choice of a naturally prominent location in the landscape.
The site represents the ritual and ceremonial practices of Bronze Age communities in Ulster, when such megalithic monuments served functions ranging from burial and astronomical observation to territorial and spiritual markers. The combination of circle, alignment and cairn suggests a complex of related structures, possibly developed over successive phases of use and reuse through the Bronze Age.
Giant's Grave is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 15005, recognising its archaeological significance as one of the region's Bronze Age megalithic sites. The monument contributes to our understanding of prehistoric settlement patterns and religious practice in the upper Strule Valley and wider County Tyrone landscape.
Giant's grave. stone circle, alignment & cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15005. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a Bronze Age megalithic complex near Omagh, comprising a stone circle, linear alignment and cairn. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15005.
Giant's grave. stone circle, alignment & cairn dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a megalithic complex. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Giant's grave. stone circle, alignment & cairn 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 15005.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Horned cairn. court tomb (4.4 km), Dunmisk fort. enclosure, monastic settlement, church & graveyard (site of) (5 km), Long cairns, giant's graves. court tomb (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave. stone circle, alignment & cairn'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. stone circle, alignment & cairn stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician To Silurian, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.