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Bowl Barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The barrow sits upon bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a complex geological formation of Visean age comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with subordinate deposits of chert, coal and conglomerate. This varied substrate, with its mix of sedimentary layers, would have presented both opportunities and challenges to the Bronze Age communities who selected this location for burial.
The monument is a bowl barrow, a common funerary form across the British Isles during the Bronze Age, typically comprising a roughly circular earthwork mound raised over cremated or inhumed remains. The precise form and dimensions of this example, along with any archaeological features it contains, reflect the burial practices and social structures of the prehistoric communities of Fermanagh.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 10968, recognising its importance to our understanding of Bronze Age settlement and ritual practices in Ulster. Its location in the distinctive Fermanagh landscape, underlain by the distinctive Tyrone Group geology, anchors this Bronze Age burial practice to the specific local environment of this region.
Bowl? barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10968. View the official record →
Bowl Barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10968.
Bowl? 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.
Bowl? 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 10968.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rath (0 km), Henge (0.1 km), Henge? (0.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Bowl? 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.
Bowl? barrow stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.