What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Crumlin Little is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Crumlin Little, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies the upper slope of a northeast-facing hill in rough pasture, about 300 metres southeast of another visible ringfort. The circular enclosure measures 32 metres across and keeps an earth and stone bank 1.4 metres wide, 0.8 metres high inside and 1.36 metres high outside. A shallow outer ditch 2 metres wide and 0.28 metres deep runs around it, but no part of that ditch is visible at the eastern entrance gap, which is 2.3 metres wide.

Situated on the upper slope of a NE-facing hill in undulating terrain, in rough pasture. Another ringfort (TN023-021) is visible c.300m to the NW. A circular area (diam. 32m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.36m) and shallow outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.28m) with entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at E. There is no evidence of the fosse at E though it appears to have been visible at the time of the Ikerrin Survey (Stout 1984, 54). Lots of spoil heaps of clay (H 0.5-0.7m) have been dumped in the interior which slopes to the NE with the hillslope. 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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