Beaghmore is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (postcode BT80 9PA).

How do I get to Beaghmore?

Drivers can use postcode BT80 9PA.

Is Beaghmore free to visit?

Yes, Beaghmore is free to enter.

How do I get to Beaghmore?

Drivers can navigate to postcode BT80 9PA. It sits within the Mid Ulster parliamentary constituency.

Hill forts · Northern Ireland

Beaghmore

Also known as: An Bheitheach Mhór

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Beaghmore — complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features in Northern Ireland.

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Free entry
Dog-friendly

Beaghmore is a hill fort in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features in Northern Ireland". Coordinates: 54.7015°, -6.9387°.

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From the Wikipedia article

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 (grid ref: H6872 8470), a cairn (grid ref: H6856 8472), stone circles, alignments and cairns (grid ref: area of H684 842), round cairn with standing stones: Bradley's Cairn (grid ref: H6830 8401) and cairn and alignment (grid ref: H6863 8431), are all Scheduled Historic Monuments.

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at Beaghmore.]] at Beaghmore.]] There are seven low stone circles of different sizes, six of which are paired, twelve cairns and ten stone rows. The circles are between 10 and 20m in diameter, and are associated with earlier burial cairns and alignments of stone rows lead towards them. The stones are small with few more than 0.5m in height and the circles are distorted, suggesting they are related to kerbs surrounding some megalithic tombs. A typical feature of the stone rows is a high and low arrangement where short rows of tall stones run beside much longer rows of small stones.

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Coordinates: 54.7015, -6.9387
District: Mid Ulster
Postcode: BT80 9PA
Parliamentary constituency: Mid Ulster

Sources

wikidata: Q812903 (CC0)
wikipedia: Beaghmore (CC BY-SA 4.0)
commons: Co.Tyrone, Beaghmore.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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