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Cloghmore is a court tomb, a Neolithic megalithic monument located near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Court tombs are ritual burial structures built during the Neolithic period, typically comprising a central open courtyard flanked by burial chambers. These monuments are concentrated in the north of Ireland and represent some of the earliest substantial architecture in the region, constructed to serve as communal burial places for the living communities that built them.
The monument sits on bedrock comprising Ordovician extrusive rocks, primarily mafic lava and tuff formed during the ancient volcanic activity of the Ordovician period. This geological setting is characteristic of the Sperrin region, where such igneous bedrock provided the stone resources available to Neolithic peoples for constructing megalithic tombs.
Cloghmore is protected as a scheduled monument under the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, Northern Ireland, under reference number 14387. This statutory protection reflects its archaeological significance as a surviving example of Neolithic funerary architecture and its importance to understanding the early settlement and ritual practices of Neolithic communities in the north of Ireland.
Cloghmore. court tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14387. View the official record →
Cloghmore is a court tomb, a Neolithic megalithic monument located near Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14387.
Cloghmore. court tomb dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cloghmore. court tomb 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 14387.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Small hillfort (5.1 km), Cloghacarah. standing stone (5.9 km), Portal tomb? (6.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cloghmore. court tomb'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.
Cloghmore. court tomb stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.