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Drumskinny
Drumskinny-stones.jpg
Some of the standing stones at Drumskinny, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Drumskinny is located in Northern Ireland
Drumskinny
Drumskinny
Irish grid reference H20097072
District
  • Fermanagh and Omagh
County
Country Northern Ireland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district BT
Dialling code 028, +44 28
EU Parliament Northern Ireland
UK Parliament
  • Fermanagh and South Tyrone
NI Assembly
  • Fermanagh and South Tyrone
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Fermanagh
54°35′04″N 7°41′24″W / 54.584362°N 7.690092°W / 54.584362; -7.690092

Drumskinny (from Irish Droim Scine, meaning 'ridge of the knife/edge') is the site of a stone circle in the townland of Drumskinny, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. With the inclusion of an adjacent cairn and alignment, the stone circle is a State Care Historic Monument in Fermanagh and Omagh district, at grid ref: H 2009 7072. The site was excavated in 1962 and is believed to have built around 2000 BC.

There are also two other townlands in Northern Ireland called Drumskinny: in the civil parish of Clonfeacle in County Tyrone; and in the civil parish of Dromore also in County Tyrone.

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