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Three Standing Stones is a prehistoric standing stone monument located in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 9879. The monument comprises three upright stones that represent a form of ritual or territorial marker common in northern British prehistory. Such standing stones typically date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age periods, though precise dating without excavation remains uncertain.
The site sits upon bedrock of the Kilskeery Group, composed of sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate laid down during the Chesterian period. The mixed geology of the underlying strata would have provided varied stone suitable for construction and tool-making in prehistory. The choice of this location reflects the practical and perhaps symbolic significance of the landscape to those who erected the stones.
Standing stone monuments of this type served multiple purposes within prehistoric communities: territorial markers, gathering points, burial monuments, or ritual sites. The survival of all three stones at Three Standing Stones demonstrates the durability of such monuments and their continued presence in the modern landscape of Fermanagh, forming a tangible connection to the region's ancient heritage.
Three standing stones is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9879. View the official record →
Three Standing Stones is a prehistoric standing stone monument located in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 9879.
Three standing stones 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.
Three standing stones 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 9879.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crannog (5.6 km), Crannog (5.7 km), Crannog (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Three standing stones'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.
Three standing stones stands on Kilskeery Group, bedrock that formed in the Chesterian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.