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Aghadrummond Court Tomb is a Neolithic megalithic monument situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Court tombs are communal burial chambers dating to the fourth millennium BC, characterised by their distinctive open forecourt at one end leading to a burial gallery. The monument lies on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a Visean-age formation comprising limestone, mudstone and sandstone interstratified with siltstone, chert and conglomerate, which would have provided readily available stone for construction by Neolithic communities.
The court tomb follows the typical two-part plan of such monuments, with a stone-built gallery for collective burial positioned behind an open court space likely used for ritual and ceremony. The surrounding landscape of Fermanagh, characterised by drumlin terrain and glacial drift deposits overlying the Carboniferous bedrock, offered both the stone resources necessary for the tomb's construction and the fertile soils that would have supported the early farming communities who built it.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under reference number 10940, recognising its significance as a rare and substantial surviving example of Neolithic funerary architecture in the region. Court tombs represent the earliest monumental constructions in Ireland, their presence marking the arrival of farming peoples and their associated ritual practices during the period of Neolithic colonisation.
Court tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10940. View the official record →
Aghadrummond Court Tomb is a Neolithic megalithic monument situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10940.
Court tomb dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Court tomb 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 10940.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dual court tomb (0.8 km), Fortified manor-house (1.1 km), Giant's grave. court tomb (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Court tomb'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.
Court tomb 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.