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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Barnane (Barnane-Ely parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Barnane (Barnane-Ely parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a D-shaped area thirty metres across from north to south, with a straight side at the southwest measuring twenty-nine metres long. Two earth and stone banks enclose the space with a three-metre-wide, forty-centimetre-deep ditch between them, while a five-metre-wide causewayed entrance opens at the northeast. The inner bank remains the best preserved at two metres wide and seventy centimetres high, though the outer bank and ditch are no longer visible at the southeast.

Situated on a NE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. Depicted as a rectangular-shaped plantation grove on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. A well-preserved D-shaped area (diam. 30m N-S) with straight side at SW (L 29m) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.4m) and causewayed entrance at NE (Wth 5m). The inner bank (Wth 2m; H 0.7m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) and fosse are destroyed at SE. 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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