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Cloghnagalla is a wedge tomb situated near Limavady in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument consists of a tapering stone chamber, a characteristic form of passage tomb that narrows from entrance to rear. The structure would originally have been covered by an earthen mound or stone cairn, with the wedge shape thought to have been deliberate in its design rather than resulting from structural collapse. Such tombs were built during the second and third millennia before the present, serving as communal burial places for early farming communities.
The monument is constructed from stone readily available in the local landscape, overlying bedrock of the Argyll Group formed during the Neoproterozoic era. This geological foundation consists of marble and meta-limestone, metamorphosed rocks that offered usable stone for the tomb's construction. The monument remains a significant record of prehistoric burial practice and settlement patterns in the north-west of Ireland.
Cloghnagalla is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under reference 12457, ensuring the preservation of this important archaeological resource for future study and public understanding of early Irish prehistory.
Cloghnagalla, cloghnagalla. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 12457. View the official record →
Cloghnagalla is a wedge tomb situated near Limavady in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 12457.
Cloghnagalla, cloghnagalla. wedge tomb dates from the neo/b.a. period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cloghnagalla, cloghnagalla. wedge 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 12457.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wedge tomb (0.8 km), White fort. cashel, souterrain & cairn (1.5 km), Black fort. rath (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cloghnagalla, cloghnagalla. wedge tomb's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cloghnagalla, cloghnagalla. wedge tomb stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is marble, meta-limestone.