What is recorded here
Cloghagalla stands in Boviel as a Neolithic and Bronze Age wedge tomb, its angled chamber still visible beneath the County Derry sky. The name suggests a woman or girl attached to the place in local memory, though no written account survives to confirm her. People may have laid the dead there, marked a boundary, or simply watched the land change around a shape they believed worthy of notice.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as WEDGE TOMB: CLOGHAGALLA or CLOGHNAGALLA. Recorded period: NEO/B.A.; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Wedge tomb dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age period. Its scheduled protection status indicates archaeological significance, though specific details on its wider importance are limited.
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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