Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghonan, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghonan
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78010, -8.08638
- SMR number
- TN027-144----
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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 very gentle SE-facing slope in rolling pastureland. The site was formerly in woodland, as depicted on the current OS 6-inch map, and is now in pasture. The much-denuded remains of a curving bank are visible at NW and SE.The site was inspected in 1955 and described as a circular area (diam. 36m E-W) enclosed by an 'earthen bank 6'[1.8m] high from ditch bottom at E side, where it is best preserved: 2'6"[0.84m] above inner ground level, with external ditch. At S a piece of the bank has been replaced by a dry-stone wall, adjoining the road. A low bank in the field to W appears to be nothing but bank round garden or cottage' (OPW files, 6.10.1955).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.