What is recorded here
Cloghafadd in Tervillin holds a Neolithic court tomb where ancient people shaped stone before written history. The chamber still stands scheduled and visible, inviting imagination about the hands that built it and the ceremonies it witnessed.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: CLOGHAFADD. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Court tomb, Neolithic period. It is significant as a scheduled monument representing early ceremonial or funerary practices in prehistoric Northern Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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