What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ashleypark (Knigh parish), rockview (Knigh parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ashleypark (Knigh parish), rockview (Knigh parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a gentle southwest-facing meadow slope and preserves a thirty-metre circular interior. An earthen bank surrounds the centre, while a wide, shallow ditch cuts outside that bank. A north-south wall now crosses the western edge, and scrub fills the interior.

Located on a gentle SW-facing slope in meadow. A raised, circular area (diam. 30m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.66m; ext. H 1.68m) which is less defined in the SW quadrant and a wide, shallow outer fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.2m). A N-S field wall transects the W portion of the site. Part of a field boundary, indicated on the latest ed. OS 6-inch map, extends along external S and W portions contiguous with the inner bank. The interior is heavily overgrown with scrub and is also used as a dump. 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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