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Scheduled Monuments in Northern Ireland: Boa Island, Beaghmore, Mount Sandel Mesolithic Site, Tullyhogue Fort, Devenish Island, Dunluce Castle
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-03.
ISBN 9781155395265
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Boa Island, Beaghmore, Mount Sandel Mesolithic Site, Tullyhogue Fort, Devenish Island, Dunluce Castle, White Island, County Fermanagh, Tievebulliagh, Corick, Dunseverick Castle, Loughbrickland Crannóg, Haughey's Fort, King's Stables, Margaret's Castle, Bright Castle, Creevekeeran Castle. Excerpt: Stone circle at Beaghmore. Stone row at Beaghmore. Stone circle and cairn at Beaghmore. 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 . Some documents suggest that Beaghmore translates into English as 'the moor of the birches' but this is plainly wrong, as there is no Irish word for moor that sounds like the English word moor (the usual word is caorán) - Mackay's Dictionary of Ulster Place-names says that it is from 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. Excavation The site was discovered in the early 1940s during peat cutting when 1, 269 stones were uncovered, and partially excavated in 1945-1949 when it was taken into state care. It was also excavated again in 1965. Investigation of the site and the surrounding bog indicate that the
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Scheduled Monuments in Northern Ireland: Boa Island, Beaghmore, Mount Sandel Mesolithic Site, Tullyhogue Fort, Devenish Island, Dunluce Castle
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