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Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb situated near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic monument belongs to a class of chambered tombs distinctive to Ireland and western Britain, characterised by their wedge-shaped ground plan and corbelled stone construction. The tomb rests upon bedrock of the Fintona Group, a sequence of Late Devonian sandstones, mudstones, siltstones and conglomerates that would have provided suitable stone for construction and affected the monument's original landscape setting.
Wedge tombs typically comprise a rectangular or tapering burial chamber accessed by a narrow entrance passage, covered by a mound of stone or earth. These monuments date to the later prehistoric period, generally constructed between 3500 and 2000 BCE, and served as communal burial places for the dead. The survival of Giant's Grave reflects the enduring solidity of megalithic construction, though its original form and extent remain altered by time and land use.
The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, Northern Ireland, under monument reference 15292. This designation ensures the preservation of this significant prehistoric monument for future generations, maintaining evidence of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement and funerary practice in the Dungannon locality.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15292. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb situated near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15292.
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 15292.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosure (2.4 km), Giant's grave. wedge? tomb (3.6 km), Long cairns, giant's graves. court tomb (3.9 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 Fintona Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.