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Giant's Grave is a Neolithic megalithic tomb located near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Fintona Group, a geological formation of sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate laid down during the Late Devonian period. Protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 15297, the site forms part of the region's significant concentration of Neolithic ritual monuments.
The tomb is a wedge-shaped megalithic structure, a form of communal burial monument characteristic of the Irish Neolithic, typically constructed between 3500 and 2500 BCE. These distinctive structures, with their tapering profile from entrance to rear, served as permanent repositories for the dead and likely functioned as focal points for burial rituals and community gatherings across generations.
The local bedrock geology would have influenced the construction and durability of the monument, with the harder conglomerate layers providing stable ground and potentially supplying stone for the structure itself. Giant's Grave exemplifies the enduring Neolithic built heritage of the Dungannon area, standing as testament to the monumental ambitions and social organisation of the earliest farming communities in Ulster.
Giant's grave. wedge? tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15297. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a Neolithic megalithic tomb located near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15297.
Giant's grave. wedge? 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. 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 15297.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long cairns, giant's graves. court tomb (0.4 km), Horned cairn. court tomb (1.9 km), Enclosure (2.1 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:
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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.