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Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument belongs to a distinctive class of passage graves found primarily in Ireland and western Britain, characterised by a wedge-shaped chamber that narrows from front to back. The tomb would originally have been covered by a substantial cairn of stone, though this has largely been removed or scattered over the millennia. Such monuments typically date between 3500 and 2500 BC and served as communal burial chambers for several generations of a family or community group.
The site stands on bedrock of the Slievebane Group, a Westphalian sandstone and conglomerate formation interbedded with other stone types. This geology shaped both the monument's construction and its survival. The local stone would have been readily accessible for building the chamber and cairn, whilst the underlying bedrock provided a stable foundation for the monument.
Giants Grave is recorded in the Historic Environment Division's schedule of protected monuments under reference number 9279. As a statutory monument, the site is safeguarded under Northern Ireland's heritage protection legislation, ensuring its preservation for future study and public understanding of prehistoric settlement and ritual practices in the region.
Giants grave. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9279. View the official record →
Giants Grave is a wedge tomb in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9279.
Giants 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.
Giants 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 9279.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Counterscarp rath (2.4 km), Rath (3.9 km), Giant's grave, chambered grave. court tomb (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giants 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.
Giants grave. wedge tomb stands on Slievebane Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.