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Harry Mount is a Bronze Age round cairn located in the Newry and Mourne district of Northern Ireland. The monument sits on bedrock of the Gala Group, a formation of wacke dating to the Telychian period, which provides a naturally stony foundation typical of upland Bronze Age burial sites in this region. Round cairns of this type generally date between 2200 and 1200 BC and typically mark the graves of individuals of status within their communities.
The cairn's location in the Newry and Mourne area places it within a landscape rich in prehistoric monuments, where Bronze Age communities exploited upland terrain for both pastoral resources and burial sites. The Gala Group wacke, being naturally fractured and weathered stone, would have provided readily available material for cairn construction, allowing builders to gather stones from the immediate vicinity.
Harry Mount is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 5998, recognising its significance as a surviving example of Bronze Age funerary practice in Ulster. The monument contributes to understanding settlement patterns and ceremonial practices among the region's prehistoric populations during the metal-working period.
Harry mount. round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 5998. View the official record →
Harry Mount is a Bronze Age round cairn located in the Newry and Mourne district of Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 5998.
Harry mount. round cairn dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Harry mount. round cairn 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 5998.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing stone (1 km), Lisleitrim fort. multivallate rath & souterrain (2.7 km), Lisleitrim lough. crannog in lisleitrim lough (3.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Harry mount. round cairn'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.
Harry mount. round cairn stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.