What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynamurragh South is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballynamurragh South, County Tipperary, Ireland. The levelled site retains a raised circular area 0.25m high inside a faint ditch 3 to 3.5m wide and about 0.25m deep, with darker grass marking the ditch and a possible outer bank at the east and south. Local information describes it as bivallate before it was levelled about 20 years ago.

Situated on a flat tract of land with streams to E, S and W and a drainage gully to N, in generally undulating terrain. A possible large enclosure (TN015-092002) lies c. 10m to the NE. Though levelled this enclosure (diam. 33m N-S; 35m E-W) is clearly defined by a raised circular area (H 0.25m) surrounded by a faint fosse (Wth 3-3.5m, D c. 0.25m) emphasised by a darker, lusher grass growth. There is some suggestion of an outer bank, particularly at E and S. The edge of the W sector has been truncated by a N-S field boundary, now replaced by an electric fence. According to local information the site was levelled c. 20 years ago and was bivallate. 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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