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Multiple Cist Cairn is a Bronze Age cairn located in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of multiple stone burial chambers, or cists, set within a mound of stones—a burial practice characteristic of Bronze Age communities in Ireland, typically dating between 2000 and 500 BCE. Such structures served as communal or family burial places, often used repeatedly over generations.
The cairn sits upon bedrock of the Tyrone Group, comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. This varied geology would have shaped both the raw materials available to those constructing the monument and the landscape's character during the Bronze Age. The mix of stone types in the surrounding bedrock provided suitable material for building the cist walls and cairn structure.
The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 10869, recognising its significance as evidence of Bronze Age burial practice and settlement in the Fermanagh region. Multiple cist cairns represent important archaeological records of prehistoric social organisation and ritual behaviour, preserving information about the communities who inhabited this part of Ulster in antiquity.
Multiple cist cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10869. View the official record →
Multiple Cist Cairn is a Bronze Age cairn located in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10869.
Multiple cist 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.
Multiple cist 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 10869.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric enclosure (0.9 km), Standing stone (1.2 km), Giant's grave, the star cairn. court tomb (1.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Multiple cist 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.
Multiple cist cairn 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.