What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloncannon is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloncannon, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies an east-west ridge in an upland area where two other ringforts stand to the west and east. A thirty-five-metre circular area is enclosed by a three-metre wide earth and stone bank that rises two metres outside and fifty centimetres inside. A three-metre wide, forty-centimetre deep outer ditch follows the bank, which remains best preserved from the south to the west and leaves an eight-metre entrance gap at the northeast.

Situated on an E-W ridge in an upland area with nearby ringforts (TN022-041, TN022-043) to the W and E respectively. A circular area (diam. 35m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) with outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.4m) best preserved from S to W with entrance gap (Wth 8m) at NE. 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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