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Cloghtogle is a portal tomb near Cookstown, County Tyrone. This Neolithic megalithic monument comprises large stone slabs arranged to create a burial chamber with a distinctive portal entrance, a design characteristic of portal tombs built across Ireland and Britain during the fourth millennium BC. The monument stands on bedrock of Hibernian Greensands and Ulster White Limestone, Cretaceous formations that would have provided ready sources of stone for construction.
The tomb's location in mid-Ulster places it within a landscape rich in Neolithic monuments. Portal tombs typically served as communal burial places, their impressive stone architecture reflecting the labour investment and social organisation of early farming communities. The precise arrangement of portal tombs suggests careful positioning within the contemporary terrain, often sited on prominent natural features.
Cloghtogle is protected as a statutory monument under the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, registration number 13178. Like other portal tombs of its age, the site preserves evidence of Neolithic burial practice and monumental construction techniques, offering insight into the beliefs and capabilities of early farming societies in the Irish midlands.
Cloghtogle. portal tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 13178. View the official record →
Cloghtogle is a portal tomb near Cookstown, County Tyrone. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 13178.
Cloghtogle. 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.
Cloghtogle. 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 13178.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Honeymug stone. standing stone (0.6 km), Platform rath (3.5 km), The fort. rath (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cloghtogle. portal 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.
Cloghtogle. portal tomb stands on Hibernian Greensands Formation And Ulster White Limestone Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Cretaceous. The rock here is chalk and sandstone.