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Limavady Standing Stone is a prehistoric standing stone located in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Division reference 12588. The stone stands upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, a Neoproterozoic sequence dominated by marble and meta-limestone that forms the underlying geology of this part of the north coast region.
Standing stones of this type were erected during the Bronze Age or earlier prehistoric periods, serving ritual, territorial or commemorative functions within their communities. This example survives as evidence of the monumental practices and social organisation of ancient peoples in the north of Ireland.
The monument sits within a landscape shaped by ancient metamorphic geology, where pale limestone bedrock outcrops characteristically. Its survival to the present day, despite millennia of agricultural and landscape change, reflects both its substantial construction and its cultural significance to successive generations of inhabitants in the Limavady area.
Standing stone is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 12588. View the official record →
Limavady Standing Stone is a prehistoric standing stone located in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Division reference 12588.
Standing stone dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a standing stone. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Standing stone 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 12588.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing stone (0.6 km), Tandragee fort. rath (1 km), Standing stone (1.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Standing stone'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.
Standing stone stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is marble, meta-limestone.