Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonakenny, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonakenny
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.86975, -7.84586
- SMR number
- TN023-028----
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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 partially on the summit and partially on the SW slope of a N-S ridge in rolling pastureland. A roughly oval enclosure (diam. 35m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) defined by scarp at W (2.05m H) and an earthen bank at E (Wth 1.6m; 0.3m int. H; 1.45m ext. H) with evidence of stone facing. There is no very wide, obvious entrance like that depicted on Stout's plan (1984, 47). The outer bank depicted on this plan appears to be a concentric earthen and stone field boundary and is separated by a 4m wide flat area from the edge of the ringfort. No visible evidence of an outer fosse. A field wall abuts the site at SSW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.