Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Stone-circle and alignment complex
The landscape
Circles across Northern Ireland
Northern Irish monuments frequently combine rings with alignments and burial cairns. Excavation and restoration are important parts of several sites' modern appearance and should be distinguished from their prehistoric form.
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Every mapped site
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Stone circles in prehistoric landscape
Ballygroll
Two stone circles survive among tombs, cairns and ancient field walls in a partly peat-covered mountain landscape.
County DownNeolithic to Bronze Age · Stone circle and burial complex
Ballynoe
A broad ring of more than fifty stones reached along an atmospheric tree-lined path.
County TyroneBronze Age · Stone circles, rows and cairns
Beaghmore
A remarkable complex of low stone circles, rows and cairns revealed beneath peat in the Sperrin foothills.Later prehistoric · Stone-circle complex
Copney Stone Circles
An extraordinary upland complex of at least nine small stone circles, alignments and cairns emerging from the Tyrone peat.
County FermanaghBronze Age · Stone circle and rows
Drumskinny
A compact circle accompanied by a stone row and cairn in the Fermanagh countryside.
County DownNeolithic · Henge with central chambered tomb
Giant's Ring
A vast Neolithic earthwork encloses a central stone-built tomb on the southern edge of Belfast.Early Bronze Age · Destroyed stone circle and burial site
Kiltierney Stone Circle (site)
The recorded site of a Fermanagh stone circle whose buried settings and seven Bronze Age burials were recovered during rescue excavation in 1975.Bronze Age · Stone circle with tangential rows
Montiaghroe Stone Circle
A low limestone ring and two tangential rows survive almost hidden in the bog south of Lower Lough Erne.Regions represented
County Down2 placesCounty Fermanagh3 placesCounty Londonderry2 placesCounty Tyrone2 places