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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. [1]
A neolithic passage tomb built around 5,000 years ago (3,000 B.C.) by the region's first farmers exists on the summit of Seefin. [3] It, alongside other megalithic monuments on the summits of nearby Seefingan and Seahan, form part of what the Wicklow tourism office has described as "an extended network of hilltop passage tombs dotted throughout the Dublin-Wicklow area".
The tomb is a stone cairn, 24 m (79 ft) in diameter and 3 m (9.8 ft) high.There are large kerb stones around the base of the tomb and the tomb has a passageway 7 m (23 ft) long, which opens into a chamber with five compartments.
Court cairns are scattered densely across this area of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Thirty percent of all Irish neolithic monuments are court cairns. [ 1 ] The court cairn at Creevykeel in County Sligo was the first court cairn to be excavated in Ireland by archaeologists from Harvard University in 1935.
A map of Carrowmore by W. G. Wood-Martin in his article The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland (1886).. Placed on a small plateau at an altitude of between 36.5 and 59 metres above sea level Carrowmore is the focal point of a prehistoric ritual landscape which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west with the great cairn of Miosgán Médhbh on top.
Knocknarea (/ n ɒ k n ə ˈ r eɪ /; Irish: Cnoc na Riabh) [2] is a large prominent hill west of Sligo town in County Sligo, Ireland, with a height of 327 metres (1,073 ft).). Knocknarea is visually striking as it has steep limestone cliffs and stands on the Cúil Irra peninsula overlooking the Atla
Dooey's Cairn, or Ballymacaldrack Court Tomb, is a prehistoric site of the Neolithic period, situated near Dunloy, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is named after Andrew Dooey, who owned the land; the monument was granted to the state in 1975 by his family. It is maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. [1]
Clermont Carn (Irish: Carnán Mhaighréid Náir, meaning 'cairn of noble Margaret'), [1] also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain that rises to 510 metres (1,670 ft) in the Cooley Mountains of County Louth, Ireland. It is at the border with Northern Ireland, and is also the location of the Clermont Carn transmission site.