What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinveny is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballinveny, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies an east-facing slope in a mountainous region. A forty-metre north-south circle remains inside an earth and stone bank two metres wide and fifty centimetres high, with an outer ditch one and a half metres wide and thirty centimetres deep. Both boundary features are destroyed at the east.

Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region. A circular area (diam. 40m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 0.5m) and outer fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.3m) both of which are destroyed at E. 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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