What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Curraghscarteen is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Curraghscarteen, County Tipperary, Ireland. The large bivallate enclosure measured about 90 metres across, but field banks and ditches built to carry spring water have damaged most of it. Only the northwest quadrant still shows its earthen round-topped bank, flat-bottomed ditch, outer earth and stone bank, and possible outer ditch. The monument is not visible at ground level south of the east-west field boundary that cuts across it.

In flat, level terrain with stream running NW-SE along SW edge of ringfort, under pasture. Large bivallate enclosure (diam. c. 90m), only NW quadrant survives. It consists of an earthen, round-topped bank (Wth 4.25m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.26m); flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.75m); outer bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.85m; ext. H 0.83m) and possible outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m below the adjacent field boundary). Ringfort has been damaged by the construction of field banks and ditches to carry run off from springs. Pond on line of banks and fosse in NE quadrant. Field boundary running roughly E-W transects the ringfort, though the monument is not visible at ground level S of the boundary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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