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# Round Cairn, Fermanagh
The round cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, constructed from stone gathered across the local landscape. Such cairns typically date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age periods and served as burial monuments for prominent community members. The site sits upon bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a complex sequence of Visean limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone deposits interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. This varied geology would have offered different stone qualities for cairn construction, with the harder limestone and chert proving most durable for the monument's core structure.
The cairn's builders would have sourced stone from natural outcrops and glacial deposits across the surrounding area, selecting larger blocks to form the central burial chamber or cist before covering it with smaller stones to create the characteristic mound. The chert deposits within the local bedrock may also have provided material for stone tools used during construction and for artefacts deposited with the dead.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference number 10543, recognising its archaeological importance and preserving it as evidence of prehistoric funerary practices and land use in Ulster.
Round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10543. View the official record →
# Round Cairn, Fermanagh The round cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, constructed from stone gathered across the local landscape. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10543.
Round cairn dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Round 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 10543.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cashel (4.6 km), Platform rath (4.7 km), Sub-rectangular enclosure (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Round 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.
Round 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.