Omi-Osun ruins

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The Omi-Ọsun ruins are the remains of an ancient settlement of the Oke-Ila Orangun kingdom, located along the Omi-Ọsun river in southwestern Nigeria. The ruins consist of remnants of ancient walls, potsherds, and other relics. Much of the site complex is currently overgrown with thicket, but large portions are being used as farmland. Efforts have been made since the late 1970s to persuade the paramount ruler and the local population to protect the remaining ruins from destruction by farming activity, building, and road construction. These efforts received an authoritatitive boost when the main advocate of the conservation of the ruins, a geologist/geophysicist with archaeological interests, was installed into the royal dynastic title of Oba'lumo, which provided increased access to the royal councils of the Orangun, the paramount king.

Omi-Ọsun was occupied by the Oke-Ila Orangun kingdom during the migrations of earlier centuries following the division of the ancient kingdom of Ila-Yara into the Oke-Ila Orangun and Ila Orangun factions, who departed the mother city as separate and independent kingdoms.

The Omi-Ọsun ruins are currently of interest to archeologists reconstructing the history of the region's ancient settlements and the development of the Igbomina of north central Yoruba.