Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooneen Middle,clooneen Upper, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen Middle,clooneen Upper
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.92377, -8.10514
- SMR number
- TN015-062----
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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
Situated on a NW-facing slope towards the base of a hill, under tillage. The site was inspected in 1957 and described as being 'apparently a large ringfort, with very slight bank and external fosse, and very heavily overgrown with scrub' (OPW Correspondance, 1.8.1957). The site is now levelled although the outline of the bank is discernible as a circular cropmark (diam. 42.3m E-W). The N portion of the site is truncated by a gravel roadway. An E-W field boundary delineates the N extent of the site. The interior slopes to the NW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.