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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lewagh Beg, Lewagh More is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lewagh Beg, Lewagh More, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a north-west-facing pasture slope as a roughly 33-metre circular enclosure with an inner bank, a wide flat-bottomed ditch and an outer bank. A roadway along the east and south edges has truncated the defences, leaving the east bank almost levelled and the outer bank absorbed into the road boundary, while a 2.3-metre entrance gap remains downslope at the west.

Located on a NW-facing slope in pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 33m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an inner bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.66m), a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 1.18m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.9m; ext. H 0.56m). A roadway running close to the E and S sides truncates the defences of the E sector. The bank at this point has been almost completely levelled and the outer bank has been incorporated into or removed by the roadway boundary. Entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) downslope at W. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lewagh Beg, Lewagh More, is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local folklore associates such sites with the faé or supernatural beings, and they were often avoided or revered by rural communities.

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