Beaghmore-Ockan Bog Trackways (Tyrone, Sperrins)
Beaghmore Stone Circle Access Toghers · Ockan Bog Causeways
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age·Sperrin Bronze Age (Beaghmore)·🇬🇧 Northern Ireland, County Tyrone, Beaghmore / Ockan Bog, Sperrin Mountains, United Kingdom
About
About Beaghmore-Ockan Bog Trackways (Tyrone, Sperrins)
95) access routes to Beaghmore stone circles (Bronze Age 2000 BCE alignment seven) across Ockan Bog (sometimes transcribed Okcomak/Ballycastle mis-archive). 1 km linking Circle C to bog pool, Beaghmore-B 900 BCE hazel brushwood spur, and Ockan 600 BCE split-oak causeway to upland burial cairn. 2 m; pollen indicates Bronze Age pine clearance simultaneous with circle erection. Parallels Eilean Domhnuill causeway archaeology but high bog not loch. Belfast museum archive transcribes Okcomak for Ockan; we standardise Ockan while retaining file alias for search.
Why it mattersSperrin bog trackways joining megalithic stone-circle astronomy to bog preservation.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stone-circle procession vs access
Theories
- 01Ceremonial processional via bog
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.1500-600 BCE (Middle Bronze to Early Iron)
- Period
- Bronze Age to Early Iron Age
- Culture
- Sperrin Bronze Age (Beaghmore)
- Builders
- Sperrin megalithic / Bronze builders
- Purpose
- Access causeway to Beaghmore stone circle complex and bog burial cairn
- Abandoned
- c.500 BCE
- Rediscovered
- 1945 McLoughlin Beaghmore circles; toghers 1972 Pilcher Sperrin survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
2000 BCE
Beaghmore circles erected
1500 BCE
Beaghmore-A plank causeway to Circle C
1972
Pilcher maps Ockan bog toghers
On the ground
Structures & features
54.3800° N · 6.9500° W · 85 m · 2 mapped features
Beaghmore-A Plank Causeway to Circle C
structure1.1 km oak plank causeway from bog Pool to Circle C
54.3820° N · 6.9520° WOckan Bog Split-Oak Cairn Track
structure280-m split-oak causeway to upland ring cairn
54.3780° N · 6.9480° W