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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballincurry (Crohane parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballincurry (Crohane parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. The surviving western half forms a modern field boundary around a forty-four-metre semi-circle, while the eastern half has been levelled. A wet outer ditch reaches one metre deep beside an earth and stone bank that stands one point seven metres high on the outside.

In flat poorly drained grassland in upland area with good views in all directions. Only the W half of the ringfort survives where it has been incorporated into the modern field boundary and consists of an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2.2m; base Wth 5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m)with wet waterlogged outer fosse (base Wth 4m; top Wth 9m; ext. D 1m) enclosing a semi-circular area (int. diam. 44m N-S) from S through W to N only, elsewhere the enclosing elements have been levelled. The ban only survives from NW to N only and has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) from S through W to NW. Poorly preserved monument of which only the bank and fosse survives from S through W to N where it is incorporated into the modern field boundary, elsewhere the monument has been levelled possibly when the field was being reclaimed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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