Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Ardbane, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardbane
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41731, -7.47877
- SMR number
- TS078-021----
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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
On natural spur surrounded by the Glenbower River to N and W and by main Clonmel to Callen road to E. Very heavily overgrown with brambles and interior planted with conifers. Defined by scarp (H 2.8m). Interior not accessible (diam. 38m N-S; 56m NE-SE from 25-inch OS map). E edge of monument was truncated by a realignment of the adjacent road. According to Power (1908, 197) this possible ringwork was called 'An Dun -"The Fort"; a natural mound by the roadside, crowned by vestiges of what appears to have been an earthwork of the Rath type'. The location of this earthwork by a routeway through a pass and the defensive nature of its topography would suggest that this is a medieval earthwork castle.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.