Carron Ringfort

Carron Ringfort is two km east of Limerick Junction, in Co. Tipperary. Typically ringforts were built predominately in the Early Medieval period, but some have been found to have been built earlier in the Bronze Age and later in the Late Iron Age. Smaller ringforts were typically a farmstead, while some ringforts were constructed as ceremonial sites. Carron Ringfort is oval in shape, 36m by 32...