What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clonaspoe is in County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a grassland slope below a hill summit, enclosing a circular area 32 metres wide from east to west. A poorly preserved earthen bank surrounds this space, though it is levelled from east through south to west and an outer ditch is visible only from north to northeast.

In grassland just below summit of hill on SE facing slope of rising ground with good views to S and E higher ground to N. Standing stone (TS052-052----) 100m to NNW and enclosure (TS052-052----) 220m to SE. Partially levelled ringfort which consists of a circular area (int. diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by poorly preserved earthen bank (top Wth 6m; base Wth 13m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4-1m) which has been levelled from E through S to W and outer fosse (top Wth11m; base Wth 4.5m; ext. D 0.4m) visible from N to NE only. Depicted as a circular enclosure on first ed. OS 6-inch map and as a partial enclosure on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument was probably partially levelled between 1840 and 1903. Enclosing bank best preserved at N where it is intersected by a field boundary running NE-SW as depicted on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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