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
- 52.77722, -8.08445
- SMR number
- TN027-147----
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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 SW-facing slope in rolling terrain. A slight curving rise in a ploughed field represents the former site, with the interior a darker colour (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 32m NE-SW). A slight dip at N indicates a possible external fosse. The site was described in 1955 as an earthen ringfort (diam. 27m/90ft E-W), enclosed by a bank (Wth 3m/10f/), a fosse (Wth 3.6m/12ft; D 1.2m/4ft) an an outer bank (Wth 1.8m/6ft) only visible on the S and W sides. Site overgrown with bracken. (OPW files, 2.10.1955).
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.