Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonanagh, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonanagh
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.80144, -8.24771
- SMR number
- TN026-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 flat pasture in undulating countryside. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 29m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m) intersected by a field fence at E and reduced to a scarp from NW through N to E with shallow external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.25m). A waterlogged quarry (dims. 7m x 15m x 1.5m) is in the centre of the interior. No entrance feature visible.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.