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Derry Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in County Derry, Northern Ireland. The monument occupies land underlain by psammite and pelite bedrock of the Southern Highland Group, deposits laid down during the Middle Cambrian period. This ancient geology forms part of the Sperrin uplands characteristic of the region, providing a stable foundation for the mound's construction and preservation over millennia.
The barrow represents a funerary tradition common across Ireland and Britain during the Bronze Age, when such earthen mounds served as prominent burial monuments for significant individuals. The site's location in the Derry landscape would have been deliberately chosen, likely for its visibility within the surrounding terrain. The precise construction details and any grave goods within remain archaeologically unrecorded in available sources.
The monument is protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, recorded under reference number 11918. This statutory protection recognises its importance as evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the north of Ireland. The barrow survives as a tangible link to prehistoric communities who inhabited and shaped this landscape.
Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11918. View the official record →
Derry Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in County Derry, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11918.
Barrow dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 11918.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Court tomb (0.8 km), Giant's grave. wedge tomb (2 km), Cup-&-ring-marked stone (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Barrow stands on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is psammite and pelite.