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Druid's Temple is a prehistoric cairn located near Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The monument comprises a stone circle with a kerbed cairn at its centre, representing a burial or ritual structure typical of Bronze Age construction. The site sits on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a Visean formation composed of limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. This mixed geology would have provided ready sources of stone for cairn construction, with the local limestone and sandstone particularly suited to the monument's building.
The kerbed arrangement of stones at the cairn's perimeter is characteristic of prehistoric burial mounds, designed to define and contain the central mound. The encircling stone circle extends the ritual or ceremonial significance of the site, suggesting it held particular importance to the Bronze Age communities of the region. Such monuments often served as focal points for burial rites and communal gatherings.
The monument is recorded under Historic Environment Division reference 11339 and enjoys statutory protection. Its survival on the Fermanagh landscape provides material evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and burial practices in Northern Ireland, contributing to understanding of Bronze Age funerary traditions in the wider region.
Druid's temple, stone circle. cairn kerb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11339. View the official record →
Druid's Temple is a prehistoric cairn located near Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11339.
Druid's temple, stone circle. cairn kerb dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Druid's temple, stone circle. cairn kerb 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 11339.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mound (1.2 km), Penitential station stones (associated with fer 0272 (2.2 km), Toberakill. mound, possibly church & penal site (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Druid's temple, stone circle. cairn kerb'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.
Druid's temple, stone circle. cairn kerb 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.