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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graigue (temple-Etney Par.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graigue (Temple-Etney parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Graigue (Temple-Etney parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a roughly circular area 45 metres north-south and 49 metres east-west on a gentle west slope below the south slopes of Slievenamon mountain. A 6.6-metre-wide bank, 0.75 metres above the interior and 2.2 metres above the ditch, encloses the site with a 4-metre-wide, 0.6-metre-deep ditch. Wooden fencing and electric wire now surround the ringfort, whose interior is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub.
Just off the crest of a flat-topped hill, on a gentle W slope, in the valley below the S slopes of Slievenamon mountain, in pasture. Ringfort fenced with wooden fencing and electric wire. Interior is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. Roughly circular area (dims. 45m N-S; 49m E-W based on 25-inch OS map) enclosed by a bank (Wth 6.6m; H above int. 0.75m; H above fosse 2.2m) and fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.6m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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