Beaghmore, county Tyrone

H 685 842 - Sheet 13

Nearest village: Dunnamore
Nearest town: Cookstown

It is possible that Neolithic occupation and cultivation preeded the erection of burial cairns and ceremonial circles and alignments:
some irregular lines and heaps of boulders (as in the foreground of the first picture below) may be field-fences or field-clearance
which predate the ritual structures.

Below the bogs and fields of the general area lie "dazzlingly valuable seams of gold",
as well as significant reserves of silver, copper and critical minerals including antimony and tellurium.
At current prices, the known gold reserves alone are worth at least £21 billion.
There may well be a connection, because there is also copper in the stone-circle country
of West Cork and Kerry.

Evening views at Beaghmore, where I once (in the early 1980s) camped overnight.

A panoramic view.

click on the picture for a view of two of the small circles and a little cairn

A typical Ken Williams photo of the same circle (from a different angle) taken in October sunshine.

Two more of Ken Williams' details of the complex.

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