Beaghmore

Beaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8.5 miles north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains.

[1] Mackay's Dictionary of Ulster Place-names says that it is from Irish an Bheitheach Mhór, meaning "big place of birch trees",[2] a name that reflects the fact that the area was a woodland before being cleared by Neolithic farmers.

[4] The site was discovered by George Barnett[5][6] in the late 1930s during peat cutting when 1,269 stones were uncovered,[2] and partially excavated in 1945–1949 when it was taken into state care.

Several of the stone rows run over the tumbled walls of field structures which also date from the Neolithic period.

The stones are small with few more than 0.5m in height and the circles are distorted, suggesting they are related to kerbs surrounding some megalithic tombs.