What is recorded here

Megalithic tomb in Drumacullin, County Antrim, built during the prehistoric period and still scheduled for protection. The Haunton Stone marks a place where people buried their dead and shaped the landscape long before written history. Its stones remain beside the land they helped define.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEGALITHIC TOMB: THE HAUNTON STONE. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Portal dolmen; Neolithic period. The Haunton Stone is a scheduled monument, indicating its archaeological importance as a surviving example of megalithic funerary architecture in Northern Ireland.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.