What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killoskehan is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killoskehan, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupied a south-facing slope in a mountainous area. A modern road cut the slight bank at the northeast, leaving no visible ground trace. The lost site measured forty yards across its subrectangular plan.
Situated on a S-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous area. A destroyed site which consisted of a subrectangular area (diam 40yds) enclosed by a slight bank intersected by a modern road at NE on a NW-SE axis (OPW correspondence 1957). Not visible at ground level.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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