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Giants' Graves is a court tomb situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic megalithic monument belongs to a distinctive class of communal burial structures that flourished in Ulster during the fourth millennium before present. Court tombs are characterised by their forecourt area, typically flanked by standing stones, which leads to one or more burial chambers constructed from large orthostatic slabs. The monument rests upon bedrock of the Kilskeery Group, comprising sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate formations deposited during the Chesterian period.
The tomb's location in Fermanagh places it within a landscape rich in Neolithic archaeological heritage. The underlying geology would have presented both opportunities and constraints to its builders: the varied sedimentary strata provided stone suitable for construction, though quarrying hard conglomerate required considerable effort. The site benefits from statutory protection under the Historic Environment Division as a scheduled monument.
Court tombs served mortuary functions for Neolithic communities, with the forecourt potentially accommodating ritual activities and the internal chambers housing successive burials. Giants' Graves preserves material evidence of early farming societies who colonised the Irish landscape following the arrival of Neolithic practices from continental Europe.
Giants' graves. court tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9945. View the official record →
Giants' Graves is a court tomb situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9945.
Giants' graves. court 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.
Giants' graves. court 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 9945.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Giant's grave. portal tomb (0.7 km), Kilknock old burial ground. wedge tomb (1.1 km), Crockroe. large hilltop enclosure (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giants' graves. court 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' graves. court tomb stands on Kilskeery Group, bedrock that formed in the Chesterian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.