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Druid's Stone is a passage tomb of Neolithic date, standing on the Moyle peninsula in County Antrim. The monument comprises a megalithic chamber accessed by a passage, a characteristic design of tombs built across Ireland and Britain during the fourth and third millennia before the present. Such structures served as communal burial places for farming communities establishing themselves in the landscape.
The site sits on bedrock of Palaeogene extrusive rocks—mafic lavas and tuffs—the remnants of ancient volcanic activity that shaped the underlying geology of this coastal region. This dense, dark stone would have posed considerable challenges for Neolithic quarrying and transport, yet the builders selected it deliberately as the foundation for their monument. The choice reflects both the practical constraints of working with available local stone and the symbolic importance placed on permanent, monumental construction.
Druid's Stone is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland. The monument preserves evidence of Neolithic burial practice and the engineering capabilities of early farming societies in Ulster, making it an important record of prehistoric settlement and ritual activity on the Moyle.
Druid's stone, mount druid, druid stone, the druid stone, mount druid cromlech. passage tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 4. View the official record →
Druid's Stone is a passage tomb of Neolithic date, standing on the Moyle peninsula in County Antrim. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 4.
Druid's stone, mount druid, druid stone, the druid stone, mount druid cromlech. passage 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.
Druid's stone, mount druid, druid stone, the druid stone, mount druid cromlech. passage 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 4.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cloughnaboghil, druids stone, cloghnaboghil, cloghnaboghil. passage tomb (1.6 km), Druids' altar. wedge tomb (5.8 km), Kilmoyle old graveyard. church (site of) & graveyard with souterrain (7.1 km).
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Druid's stone, mount druid, druid stone, the druid stone, mount druid cromlech. passage tomb stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.