Beaghmore Stone Circles

Local nameBeaghmore Stone Circles
LocationIreland, UK

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.Mackay's Dictionary of Ulster Place-names says that it is from Irish an Bheitheach Mhór, meaning "big place of birch trees", a name that reflects the fact that the area was a woodland before being cleared by Neolithic farmers.

Beaghmore stone circles, alignments and cairns are State Care Historic Monuments in the townland of Beaghmore, in the Cookstown District Council area, grid ref: Area of H684 842. At Beaghmore a cairn, a cairn, stone circles, alignments and cairns, round cairn with standing stones: Bradley's Cairn and cairn and alignment, are all Scheduled Historic Monuments.

Tags MegalithArchaeological Site
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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaghmore

Northern Ireland tourist website http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Beaghmore-Stone-Circles-Cookstown-P2949

Email info@an-creagan.com

Phone +44 28 867 69949

Address Blackrock Road, BT80 9, United Kingdom

Coordinates 54°42'5.698" N -6°56'12.132" E

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