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Cloghanachorite is a boulder with natural or worked hollows located near Omagh in County Tyrone. The monument sits on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a Visean-period formation comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interbedded with chert, coal and conglomerate. The irregular depressions in the stone's surface remain of uncertain origin and may represent natural weathering or deliberate modification by human activity.
Such boulder monuments are found throughout Ireland and Britain, often associated with prehistoric ritual, burial practice or utilitarian purposes. Without dated artefactual evidence from the site, the age and function of Cloghanachorite cannot be precisely determined. The monument's significance lies in its ambiguous character, which preserves a record of past human engagement with the natural landscape in the Omagh area.
The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under record reference 14896. The boulder remains in situ, contributing to understanding of how communities across different periods may have marked, modified or gathered significance from natural geological features within their local terrain.
Cloghanachorite, cloghnachorite. boulder with hollows is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14896. View the official record →
Cloghanachorite is a boulder with natural or worked hollows located near Omagh in County Tyrone. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14896.
Cloghanachorite, cloghnachorite. boulder with hollows dates from the uncertain period, and is classified as a boulder. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cloghanachorite, cloghnachorite. boulder with hollows is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 14896.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Giant's grave. court tomb (0.3 km), Platform rath (0.4 km), Counterscarp rath (0.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cloghanachorite, cloghnachorite. boulder with hollows's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cloghanachorite, cloghnachorite. boulder with hollows stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.