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Armagh Megalithic Tomb is a prehistoric stone burial monument situated in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It belongs to the class of megalithic tombs constructed during the Neolithic period, typically between 4000 and 2500 BCE. These monuments were built by early farming communities and served as communal burial places for their dead, often becoming focal points for ritual and ceremony across generations.
The tomb sits upon bedrock of the Leadhills Supergroup, specifically wacke deposits formed during the Ashgill period of the late Ordovician. This underlying geology shaped the local stone resources available to the monument's builders, who selected suitable megaliths from the surrounding landscape. The underlying wacke, a compact sedimentary rock, would have provided a stable foundation for the structure and may have influenced the choice of this location.
The monument is registered with the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland under reference 5585, which recognises its significance as a protected archaeological site. Megalithic tombs such as this represent some of the oldest substantial structures surviving in the Irish landscape, offering valuable evidence of Neolithic social organisation, burial practices and the relationship between early communities and their environment.
Megalithic tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 5585. View the official record →
Armagh Megalithic Tomb is a prehistoric stone burial monument situated in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 5585.
Megalithic tomb dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Megalithic 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 5585.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rath, reused as tree ring & lime kiln (1.3 km), Rath (1.6 km), The doonan. mound (1.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Megalithic 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.
Megalithic tomb stands on Leadhills Supergroup, bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is wacke.