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Barrow at Cookstown is a Bronze Age burial mound located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, situated on bedrock composed of Silurian mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. The monument is positioned at grid reference H7035075080 and forms part of the wider archaeological landscape of the region, where such earthen mounds served as prominent territorial markers and communal burial monuments during the Bronze Age period, roughly 2200 to 500 BC.
The barrow's construction would have involved the deliberate accumulation of earth and stone to create a durable burial structure, with the local Silurian geology providing suitable stone material for any internal stone settings or cairn elements. Such monuments typically contained individual or multiple burials, often accompanied by grave goods, though the specific archaeological characteristics of this barrow remain to be fully documented.
The site is protected under Historic Environment Division reference 15040, reflecting its status as a significant Bronze Age monument within Northern Ireland's designated heritage record. Barrows of this period represent important archaeological evidence for Bronze Age burial practices, social organisation and landscape use in Ulster, preserving information about prehistoric communities whose material culture, settlement patterns and ritual practices continue to inform understanding of Bronze Age society across the island of Ireland.
Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15040. View the official record →
Barrow at Cookstown is a Bronze Age burial mound located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, situated on bedrock composed of Silurian mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15040.
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 15040.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moymore stone circles. nine stone circles & two alignments (0.9 km), Rath (1.8 km), Stone circles (3) & alignment (4.8 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 Silurian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.