Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Cullahill (glenkeen Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullahill (glenkeen Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.75937, -8.01539
- SMR number
- TN034-025004-
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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 the N face of a steep ravine overlooking a river below to the NE with a seventeenth-century stronghouse and bawn (TN034-025001/002) to the SW. A raised circular area (diam. 29.5m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2-3m) and an outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m) with slight traces of an external bank. The site is very defensive in nature due to the cliff-edge and is strategically located to protect the routeway through the ravine. This may be the thirteenth-century castle of the O'Dwyers (ITA survey 1945).
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.