Beaghmore
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Beaghmore is the name of a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features near Pomeroy in the Northern Ireland county of County Tyrone.
It was discovered in the early 1940's during peat cutting and partially excavated after World War II. The site has been occupied since the Neolithic, but the stones date c. 1600 BC.
There are seven stone circles, six of which are paired together, between 10 and 20m in diameter. The circles are associated with earlier burial cairns and alignments of stone rows lead towards them. The stones are small with few more than 0.5m in height and the circles they describe are distorted, suggesting they are related to kerbs surrounding some megalithic tombs.
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