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Ringfort - rath

Cloghonan, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloghonan, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 At S a piece of the bank has been replaced by a dry-stone wall, adjoining the road.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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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