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Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic monument consists of a stone-built burial chamber constructed to exploit the natural slope of the landscape, characteristic of wedge tombs built across Ireland during the fourth and third millennia before the present. The monument rests upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, Neoproterozoic marble and meta-limestone that would have shaped both the construction methods available to its builders and the appearance of the exposed stone. The tomb's position within this distinctive geological setting provides insight into how prehistoric communities selected locations based on the natural resources at hand. Giant's Grave is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division and remains an important testimony to Neolithic or Bronze Age burial practices and monumental construction in the west of Northern Ireland.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 13946. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 13946.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb dates from the neo/b.a. period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Giant's grave. wedge 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 13946.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rocking stone. portal tomb (1.6 km), Ballynabwee fort. counterscarp rath (2.8 km), Mount castle. plantation castle (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave. wedge 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. wedge tomb stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is marble, meta-limestone.