The Ngarabal are an Aboriginal people of the area from Ashford, Tenterfield and Glen Innes in northern New South Wales, Australia.
Ngarabal was still spoken in the area around Glen Innes, Stonehenge and Emmaville when John MacPherson practised as a doctor in northern New South Wales in the late 1890s.
[2][3] The Ngarabal were closely related to the Jukambal, and it is possible that they may have constituted a western group of hordes of the latter, though authorities like Alfred Radcliffe-Brown have stated that they formed a distinct tribal unit.
In terms of internal medicine, their properties were used in cases of diarrhoea, something MacPherson observed as working when he applied the remedy to a pet opossum suffering from loose bowels.
Subsequently, three adjacent properties- Rosemont, Canoon and Boorabee, were added to the site as part of an indigenous protected area.