What is recorded here

Castle in Sopwell, County Tipperary, is a ringwork on a low natural rise. Its subcircular platform measures thirty-one metres north-south and stands two metres high. A wide flat-bottomed fosse surrounds it, though no entrance remains visible. The earth has kept the shape of human choice even when every wooden wall and stone room has left it.

Situated on a low natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A raised subcircular platform (diam. 31m N-S; H 2m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank visible at SE only, elsewhere reduced to a scarp with a wide flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 5.6m). No entrance feature visible. 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

Built by a local Norman lord in the 12th century, likely as a strategic defensive outpost or hunting lodge. It is remembered as an example of a ringwork, a common early medieval military structure used for local control and defense.

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