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Ballymoney Mound is a prehistoric round barrow situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of an earthen mound characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice, when such structures were constructed across the Irish landscape to serve as focal points for communal memory and ancestral commemoration. The mound's survival into the modern period reflects both its substantial original construction and the protective geology of its setting.
The monument stands on bedrock formed from the Lough Neagh Clays Group, deposits laid down during the Oligocene period millions of years before human settlement. These clay and lignite deposits create a stable foundation that has supported the mound's preservation through millennia of exposure to Northern Ireland's wet climate. The local geology would have presented particular challenges to those who built the barrow, requiring substantial effort to construct and maintain the earthen structure.
Ballymoney Mound is now protected under the Historic Environment Division's scheduling system as a monument of archaeological significance, registered under reference 1341. The site remains an important record of Bronze Age funerary practice in the Ballymoney area, and its continued protection ensures that future archaeological investigation may recover evidence of the burial practices and social organisation of prehistoric communities in this part of Ulster.
Mound - round barrow? is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 1341. View the official record →
Ballymoney Mound is a prehistoric round barrow situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 1341.
Mound - round barrow? dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Mound - round barrow? 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 1341.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Raised rath (0.4 km), Mound - barrow? (1.3 km), Platform rath (1.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Mound - round barrow?'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 - round barrow? stands on Lough Neagh Clays Group, bedrock that formed in the Oligocene. The rock here is clay and lignite.