What is recorded here
Clontygora holds a Neolithic portal tomb where ancient hands shaped stone into a chamber for the dead. The structure still stands in County Armagh, marking a time when people believed the boundary between life and death could be built rather than imagined.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ?PORTAL TOMB. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Portal tomb; Neolithic period. It represents an early form of megalithic monument associated with burial and ritual practices in prehistoric 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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