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Ballymena Mound is an uncertain mound situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 2193. The mound's precise function and date of construction remain undetermined, though its presence in the landscape indicates deliberate earthworking by past communities. Located at grid reference D1214004750, the monument survives as an earthwork feature within the modern townland.
The mound rests upon Palaeogene extrusive rocks, specifically mafic lava and mafic tuff formations that underlie this part of Ballymena. These volcanic bedrock deposits, which solidified during the Palaeogene period, provide the geological foundation upon which the monument sits and have influenced the character of the local landscape for millions of years.
Uncertain mounds of this type in Northern Ireland may represent the remains of Bronze Age burial cairns, medieval mottes, or other communal earthworks whose original purpose has been obscured by time and landscape change. The survival of the Ballymena Mound as a recorded monument testament to the region's layered archaeological heritage and reflects the importance of preserving ambiguous earthworks that might yet yield information about past activity and settlement patterns.
Mound is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 2193. View the official record →
Ballymena Mound is an uncertain mound situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 2193.
Mound dates from the uncertain period, and is classified as a mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Mound 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 2193.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ancient field system, including rath & 2 round cairns (c.f. 038 (5.3 km), Ancient field system, including rath & 2 round cairns (c.f. 038 (5.5 km), Ancient field system, including rath & 2 round cairns (c.f. 038 (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Mound'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.
Mound stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.