Various cenotaphs have been erected in Northern Ireland: the UK National Inventory of War Memorials provides comprehensive details of each monument in their Online Database (links provided). A private website[1] also maintains very detailed information on a number of these monuments. Links to the relevant pages on each of these sites are provided in the column headed Ref.
Most communities in Northern Ireland can account for losses in the conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries especially the World Wars. To honour those that died, it was common practice for communities to contribute toward a fund to build a memorial or cenotaph. These cenotaphs are often quite striking and frequently the only decorative or sculptural structures to be seen in smaller settlements. Such cenotaphs are rarely the only memorial erected by a community: stained glass windows, plaques and similar artifacts can be found in churches and other public buildings. Indeed, often buildings themselves, especially British Legion Halls, or gardens were constructed as memorials too.
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| County | Community | Location | Year | List of Names | Description | Ref[2] [3] | Image |
| Down | Bangor | Ward Park | 1927 | 133 | Portland stone obelisk with bronze figures | 9177 uwm | |
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| Down | Bangor | Ward Park | Bronze gun recovered from a captured German U-boat bearing the inscription "This gun taken from German submarine UB19 was allotted to Bangor (County Down) by the Admiralty in recognition of the valorous conduct of Commander the Hon. Edward Barry Stewart Bingham of H.M.S. Nestor at the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916. For which he received the Victoria Cross.” | uwm | |||
| Down | Holywood | Redburn Square | 1922 | 108, 26, 1 | Bronze soldier with rifle & bayonet upon a marble plinth (plinth and surrounding stonework whitewashed) | 6534 uwm | |
| Down | Newtownards | Old Bowling Green | 1934 | 316 | Granite obelisk on a four stepped base | 6535 uwm | |
| Down | Waringstown | beside church | 1921 | ? | 40-foot clock tower built from local stone with 3 dial chiming clock | 9174 uwm | |
| Antrim | County Antrim | Knochagh Hill, Monument Road | 1922-1937 | an obelisk 110 feet in height set an a site 935 feet above Belfast Lough; modeled on the Wellington Memorial in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Knockagh Monument dominates the skyline above Carrickfergus and Greenisland and is clearly visible from across the lough in North Down | uwm | ||
| Antrim | Glengormley | Glengormley Park, Ballyclare Road | 1990 | 3.5m red marble obelisk on two brick steps | 6426 | ||
| Antrim | Jordanstown | Loughshore Park, Shore Road | 1983 | 1.7m Free-standing tablet of polished granite | 6428 | ||
| Antrim | Carrickfergus | railway station car park; originally in York Road Railway Station, Belfast (now demolished) - relocated in 1993 | 1921 | 60, 8 | an ornate stone obelisk on a square plinth with bronze name plaques; erected by Midland Railway Company | 6188 | |
| Antrim | Larne | Inver Park near parish church | 1922 | 147 | Bronze soldier and sailor on a 5m portland stone obelisk | 6606 | |
| Antrim | Belfast | originally constructed near the battlefield (Battle of Happy Valley) at Chaegunghyon, Korea: in 1962[4] moved to Royal Ulster Rifles barracks in Ballymena and in 2008 to the grounds of Belfast City Hall when the barracks closed[5] | 1951 | 208 | Known as the ""Imjin River Memorial""[6]; Korean granite obelisk on a two-stepped plinth; with bronze additions in 2008 | 6601 | |
| Antrim | Belfast | In an enclosure on the East side of Belfast City Hall, formerly on the NE corner of the grounds | 1905 | 132 | an 8-foot bronze soldier in khaki uniform at the ready with rifle and bayonet upon a massive boulder set on a granite plinth (15-foot); dedicated to the Royal Irish Rifles | 43479 | |
| Antrim | Belfast | West side of Belfast City Hall | In a sunken garden separated by a semicircle of Corinthian columns as a backdrop to a large Portland stone obelisk; the area repaved in 1993 | 6321 uwm |