What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghane is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloghane, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a gentle east-facing pasture slope as an irregular, roughly D-shaped enclosure measuring 47 metres north-south and 42.5 metres east-west. The site preserves an earthen bank, a flat-bottomed ditch and an outer bank, although the main bank has been levelled or quarried at the southeast and northeast edges where it remains visible only through grass growth.

Situated on a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. An irregular, roughly D-shaped enclosure (diam. 47m N-S; 42.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 1.86; ext. H 2m), flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.8m) and outer bank (Wth 2.3m; ext. H 0.64m). The bank at the straight SE side has been levelled but is visible as differential grass growth. At NE the bank has been levelled and quarried into but the fosse and outer bank appear as grass-marks. Field boundaries abut the outer bank at W and SW. 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

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