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# Ring Barrow, Omagh
This ring barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument situated near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Ring barrows consist of a central burial mound surrounded by a ditch and outer bank, a characteristic form of funerary monument constructed during the Bronze Age across the Irish landscape. The monument occupies land underlain by the Omagh Sandstone Group, Carboniferous bedrock composed of sandstone, siltstone and mudstone that would have been familiar geological material to the Bronze Age communities who built here.
The ring barrow survives as an earthwork feature within the local topography, its form shaped both by original construction and subsequent land use over more than three millennia. The surrounding sandstone geology of the Omagh area would have provided accessible stone for building and tool-making during the Bronze Age, supporting communities whose material culture and burial practices are represented by monuments of this type across Ulster.
The site is protected as a scheduled historical monument by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, recognised under reference 14378 as an asset of archaeological and historical significance to the wider Bronze Age heritage of Northern Ireland.
Ring barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14378. View the official record →
# Ring Barrow, Omagh This ring barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument situated near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14378.
Ring barrow dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ring 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 14378.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone circle & possible alignment (1.5 km), Two stone circles, cairn(s) & standing stone(s) (1.6 km), Chambered grave, cloghogle. court tomb (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Ring 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.
Ring barrow stands on Omagh Sandstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Tournaisian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.