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Omagh Standing Stone is a prehistoric standing stone located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The monument stands on bedrock formed from a mafic igneous intrusion of Silurian age, part of the ancient volcanic activity that shaped the geology of this region. The stone occupies a significant position in the landscape at grid reference H6398373516 and is protected by the Historic Environment Division under monument reference 15011.
Standing stones such as this were typically erected during the Neolithic or Bronze Age as territorial markers, ritual foci, or memorials. Their presence across the Irish landscape reflects the enduring spiritual and practical needs of prehistoric communities. The choice of location on igneous bedrock suggests consideration of both practical stone working and the symbolic properties of the site's geology.
Today the monument remains a tangible link to the earliest phases of human activity in the Omagh area. Its survival, despite thousands of years of changing land use and climate, testifies to the durable materials and careful placement that characterised prehistoric monument builders. The stone continues to anchor the local landscape and community memory, protected as part of Northern Ireland's irreplaceable archaeological heritage.
Standing stone is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15011. View the official record →
Omagh Standing Stone is a prehistoric standing stone located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15011.
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 15011.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dunmisk fort. enclosure, monastic settlement, church & graveyard (site of) (3.1 km), Horned cairn. court tomb (3.7 km), Multiperiod burial mound - court tomb, 4 neolithic pit burials, 8 bronze age burials & rath (4.5 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 Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician To Silurian, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.