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# Ring Barrow, Larne
Ring barrow, Larne is a Bronze Age funerary monument protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 2362. Located in County Antrim in the north-east of Northern Ireland, the site sits on bedrock comprising Palaeogene extrusive rocks—ancient mafic lava and tuff formed during volcanic activity in the early Tertiary period. This distinctive geological foundation reflects the dramatic volcanic geology of the wider Antrim plateau.
Ring barrows are Bronze Age burial mounds typically surrounded by an encircling ditch or bank, serving as focal points for ritual deposition and commemoration. Such monuments are numerous across the Irish landscape and represent the ceremonial practices of Bronze Age communities. Their construction and use span the second millennium BC, reflecting changing burial customs and social organisation across successive periods.
The Larne example occupies an important position within the Bronze Age archaeological record of County Antrim, a region rich in prehistoric monuments. The monument's preservation as a scheduled site recognises its significance as evidence of ancient funerary practice and its contribution to understanding Bronze Age settlement, ceremony and territorial organisation in north-east Ireland. The surrounding landscape would have been familiar to the communities who built and used this enduring monument.
Ring barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 2362. View the official record →
# Ring Barrow, Larne Ring barrow, Larne is a Bronze Age funerary monument protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 2362.
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 2362.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Raised rath (6.1 km), Little ardymagh. ecclesiastical enclosure with souterrains (6.9 km), Counterscarp rath (7 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 Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.