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Dungannon Standing Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It stands within a landscape underlain by the Tyrone Group, a complex sequence of Visean limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone deposits that have shaped the local topography and geology. The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 15711, recognising its significance as evidence of Bronze Age ritual and territorial practice in the region.
Standing stones of this period typically functioned as territorial markers, meeting places or ritual foci for dispersed Bronze Age communities. The choice of location reflects the inhabitants' understanding of their landscape, with the stone positioned within the rolling terrain of mid-Tyrone. The survival of the monument testifies to the durability of such monuments across three thousand years, through agricultural intensification and landscape change.
As a Bronze Age standing stone, Dungannon exemplifies the monumental tradition that flourished across Ireland during the second millennium BCE. Its presence, at grid reference H4591653124, contributes to our understanding of Bronze Age settlement patterns and cultural expression in the wider Dungannon area, where similar monuments and archaeological deposits suggest sustained human activity across successive periods.
Standing stone is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15711. View the official record →
Dungannon Standing Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15711.
Standing stone dates from the bronze age 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 15711.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wedge tomb (1.6 km), Wedge tomb (3 km), Rath reused as tree ring (4 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 Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.