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Blackrock Road
Cookstown
Tyrone
United Kingdom

Beaghmore Stone Circle


Beaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8.5 miles north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains.

This superb site is the only excavated and maintained stone-circle site amongst many in central Tyrone.

Circles of small stones with tangential alignments of larger ones are common in the central Tyrone and E Fermanagh area, and at Beaghmore a groupof these, together with about a dozen small cairns were uncovered during peat-cutting. More lie in the uncut peat-bog beyond. At present 7 circles and 9 rows can be seen – the stones of the rows being from a few centimetres to 1.8 metres high. Burials and kists were found in some of the cairns. One stone circle is filled with hundreds of small stones set upright. It is possible that Neolithic occupation and cultivation preeded the erection of burial cairns and ceremonial circles and alignments: some irregular lines and heaps of boulders rsembling field-fences or field-clearance may predate the ritual structures. At some stage peat started to formover the site, and it may conceivably be that the cairns and rows were erected in a futile propitiatory attempt to restore fertility to the soil by attracting back the fading sun.


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