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Dungannon Wedge Tomb is a Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic burial monument located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The monument sits on bedrock of the Fintona Group, a geological formation of sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate laid down during the Late Devonian period. The site lies at grid reference H468975, and is protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 15704.
Wedge tombs are a distinctive class of passage grave, predominantly found in Ireland, with examples concentrated particularly in the west and south-west. These monuments typically consist of a wedge-shaped burial chamber constructed from large stone slabs, often set within a stone cairn and aligned to the south-west. The form and distribution of wedge tombs suggest they were built during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, representing a later development in megalithic funerary practice than earlier passage grave styles.
The Dungannon example occupies a landscape shaped by Devonian geology, part of the complex geology of the Tyrone region. The underlying bedrock geology would have influenced both the selection of the site and the sourcing of stone for the monument's construction. As a protected scheduled monument, the wedge tomb survives as evidence of early prehistoric burial practices and the social communities that constructed it during the third and second millennia before the present.
Wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15704. View the official record →
Dungannon Wedge Tomb is a Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic burial monument located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15704.
Wedge tomb dates from the neo/b.a. period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Wedge tomb 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 15704.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wedge tomb (2.4 km), Rath - one of a pair with tyr 051 (2.8 km), Rath one of a pair with tyr 051 (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Wedge tomb'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.
Wedge tomb stands on Fintona Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.