Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cloghatanny, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghatanny
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35414, -7.68177
- SMR number
- OF007-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
No remains visible of a ringfort survives, site of a limekiln built into the side of a natural hill which is quarried at east. Ringfort was located to the W of Sheean House. Described in 1977 as 'a large subcircular or oval shaped earthwork. A massive bank survives on the S.W , W and NW sides, there is a wide shallow fosse outside this on the western side. The interior and the remaining part of the perimeter have been disturbed by quarrying and it is almost impossible to trace the perimeter on the northern and eastern sides. There is the possible outline of a house in the S.W part of the ringfort and remains of a low stone wall in the western part. A number of trees grow in this part of the interior. This earthwork is on a low ridge or hill with wide views in all directions' (ASI file 1977).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.