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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Barbaha

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Barbaha is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Barbaha, County Tipperary, Ireland. The upland site holds a natural hillock scarped and flattened into a circular area twenty-five metres across from east to west. An earth and stone bank, mainly reduced to a one-and-a-half-metre scarp, encloses the space, while an external ditch one-and-a-half metres wide and half a metre deep is visible only from north to east. No entrance feature is visible.
Situated in an upland area. A natural hillock was scarped and flattened on top to form a ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 25m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank which has been mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1.5m) with external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.5m) visible from N to E only. No entrance feature visible. 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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