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Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb and stone circle forming a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic complex near Strabane in County Tyrone. The monument sits upon bedrock of mafic igneous origin, part of an unnamed Neoproterozoic intrusion that has shaped the local geology for over 600 million years. This dark, hard stone would have presented both challenge and resource to the prehistoric builders who constructed the site.
The wedge tomb represents the characteristic passage grave tradition of Neolithic Ireland, with its distinctive tapering chamber and approach. The associated stone circle extends the ritual and ceremonial function of the site into the Bronze Age, suggesting continued use and reuse across millennia. Such complexes often occupy prominent positions within their landscape, though local topography here would have been determined by the underlying igneous geology.
The site is recorded under the Historic Environment Division's monument protection system as reference 13900 and remains subject to statutory protection. The combination of tomb and circle at a single location reflects the layering of sacred and communal spaces that characterised Irish prehistoric settlement patterns, with the durable mafic bedrock providing a permanent geographical anchor for successive generations of ritual activity.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb & stone circle is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 13900. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb and stone circle forming a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic complex near Strabane in County Tyrone. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 13900.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb & stone circle dates from the neo/b.a. period, and is classified as a megalithic complex. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb & stone circle 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 13900.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Portal tomb (3.4 km), Two stone circles, cairn with cist & two alignments (4 km), Rath (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave. wedge tomb & stone circle'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 & stone circle stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.