Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonagh

This site encompasses the top of a hill, in hilly, undulating terrain. The interior rises with the natural rise of the hill with ground sloping off in all directions. Depicted in woodland on the 1st and latest ed. OS 6-inch maps. The hill immediately W of the site has been quarried away and a house constructed in the quarry shelter. The W portion of the site has been damaged by this quarrying.. The present remains consist of a roughly circular area (diam. 38.7m N-S; 40.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.32; ext. H 1.37) which only survives undisturbed at E. A break in the SE quadrant (Wth 3.7m) may be the remains of an entrance and there is a depression in the NE quadrant where the interior was quarried into. The commanding position of this site is not typical of ringforts and this may be a tree-ring. 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