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Possible Portal Tomb, Limavady is a Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic monument situated in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Portal tombs of this period typically consist of a burial chamber formed by large upright stones supporting a capstone, with an entrance defined by two prominent portal stones. The monument rests upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, ancient metamorphic rocks formed during the Neoproterozoic era, comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite deposits that underlie much of the north-west Ulster landscape.
The site benefits from statutory protection as a scheduled monument under the Historic Environment Division, reference number 12443. This designation recognises its archaeological and cultural significance as a surviving example of megalithic funerary architecture, a tradition that flourished across Ireland during the early prehistoric period. Portal tombs are among the most distinctive and enduring monuments from this era.
The monument's location within the Limavady area places it within a landscape rich in prehistoric settlement and burial sites. The local topography and underlying geology would have been known and utilised by the communities who constructed such monuments, making this site an important reference point for understanding Neolithic and Bronze Age activity in the region.
Possible portal tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 12443. View the official record →
Possible Portal Tomb, Limavady is a Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic monument situated in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 12443.
Possible portal 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.
Possible 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 12443.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Possible court tomb (0.1 km), Court tomb (1.4 km), Altnaheglish reservoir. reservoir dam (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Possible 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.
Possible portal tomb stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.