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Cloghogle is a portal tomb dating to the Neolithic period, situated near Strabane in County Tyrone. This megalithic monument exemplifies the chambered burial tradition of early farming communities in Ireland, constructed several millennia ago to house the dead of a settled population. The tomb's entrance, flanked by substantial portal stones, leads into a burial chamber roofed by massive capstones—a distinctive architectural form widespread across the Irish landscape during the fourth and third millennia before the present.
The monument stands upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, formed during the Neoproterozoic era from marble and meta-limestone. This metamorphic geology would have provided suitable stone for the tomb's construction, with materials readily quarried or gathered from the local landscape. The surrounding terrain around Strabane, shaped by glaciation and characterized by these ancient metamorphic rocks, offered both practical resources and geological stability for such substantial stone structures.
Cloghogle is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 14263. As one of Northern Ireland's surviving portal tombs, it represents an important record of Neolithic burial practice and territorial settlement patterns, offering insights into the beliefs and social organization of Ireland's earliest farming societies.
Cloghogle. portal tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14263. View the official record →
Cloghogle is a portal tomb dating to the Neolithic period, situated near Strabane in County Tyrone. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14263.
Cloghogle. portal 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.
Cloghogle. portal 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 14263.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wedge tomb (5.2 km), Chambered grave, cloghogle. court tomb (5.3 km), Ring barrow (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cloghogle. portal tomb's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cloghogle. portal tomb stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is marble, meta-limestone.