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Omagh Wooden Trackway is a prehistoric wooden trackway located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Dating to the Bronze Age, the trackway represents a rare survival of organic structural remains from this period. Constructed from timber, it would have served as a constructed route across difficult terrain, facilitating movement and trade across the landscape during the second millennium before the present era.
The trackway lies on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, Carboniferous in age, comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone with subsidiary deposits of chert, coal and conglomerate. These geological conditions, particularly the waterlogged deposits often associated with such sequences, have created ideal preservation conditions for the survival of wooden remains that would normally decay rapidly in Irish soils. The retention of timber structure in such contexts is exceptional and provides direct evidence of Bronze Age construction techniques.
The site is designated as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Division reference 14589, reflecting its significance as a rare intact example of Bronze Age timber engineering. The trackway contributes important archaeological evidence concerning prehistoric routeways and settlement patterns in the Omagh area during the second millennium BC, offering rare physical testimony to Bronze Age infrastructure and communication networks in northern Ireland.
Bronze age wooden trackway is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14589. View the official record →
Omagh Wooden Trackway is a prehistoric wooden trackway located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14589.
Bronze age wooden trackway dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a trackway. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bronze age wooden trackway 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 14589.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Horned cairn. court tomb (3 km), Four stone circles & alignment (4.2 km), Dermot and grania's bed. wedge tomb (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Bronze age wooden trackway'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.
Bronze age wooden trackway 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.