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Northern Ireland

Browse confirmed ancient monuments alongside clearly labelled related, reconstructed and modern circles.

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Northern Ireland · County Londonderry

Aughlish Stone Circles

Probably c. 2500–1500 BC · Stone-circle and alignment complex

At least five low stone circles and five alignments occupy a quiet slope below the northern Sperrins.

Northern Ireland · County Londonderry

Ballygroll

c. 3000–1500 BC · Stone circles in prehistoric landscape

Two stone circles survive among tombs, cairns and ancient field walls in a partly peat-covered mountain landscape.

Northern Ireland · County Down

Ballynoe

c. 3000–1500 BC · Stone circle and burial complex

A broad ring of more than fifty stones reached along an atmospheric tree-lined path.

Northern Ireland · County Tyrone

Beaghmore

c. 2000–1200 BC · Stone circles, rows and cairns

A remarkable complex of low stone circles, rows and cairns revealed beneath peat in the Sperrin foothills.

Northern Ireland · County Tyrone

Copney Stone Circles

Date uncertain; probably Bronze Age · Stone-circle complex

An extraordinary upland complex of at least nine small stone circles, alignments and cairns emerging from the Tyrone peat.

Northern Ireland · County Fermanagh

Drumskinny

c. 2000–1500 BC · Stone circle and rows

A compact circle accompanied by a stone row and cairn in the Fermanagh countryside.

Northern Ireland · County Down

Giant's Ring

c. 2700 BC · Henge with central chambered tomb

A vast Neolithic earthwork encloses a central stone-built tomb on the southern edge of Belfast.

Northern Ireland · County Fermanagh

Kiltierney Stone Circle (site)

Early Bronze Age · Destroyed stone circle and burial site

The recorded site of a Fermanagh stone circle whose buried settings and seven Bronze Age burials were recovered during rescue excavation in 1975.

Northern Ireland · County Fermanagh

Montiaghroe Stone Circle

Probably c. 2500–1500 BC · Stone circle with tangential rows

A low limestone ring and two tangential rows survive almost hidden in the bog south of Lower Lough Erne.