Beaghmore, county Tyrone
My dog Oscar gives an idea of how small most of the stones in this photogenic complex are.
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 East Fermanagh area, and at Beaghmore a group of these, together with about a dozen small cairns were uncovered during peat-cutting. More may 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.
H 685 842 -
Sheet 13
Nearest village: Dunnamore
Nearest town: Cookstown
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