What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Park (Killea parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Park (Killea parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. Its compact area measures 19.7 metres north to south and 17.7 metres east to west on a southeast-facing hillside. A 2.1-metre earth-and-stone bank encloses it, with no obvious external ditch apart from a slight dip at northwest. A 2.6-metre southern gap, now cut by a road, may be the original entrance.

Situated on a natural knoll/ridge on a hillside sloping to the SE, in undulating pastureland. A ringfort (TN029-002) is visible on the hillside to the SW and another ringfort (TN023-048) is closeby to the SW. A small compact ringfort (diam. 19.7m N-S; 17.7m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.88; ext. H 0.84) with no obvious external fosse though there is a slight dip at the base of the bank at NW. A gap at S (Wth 2.6m) may be the original entrance feature - it is now truncated by a roadway giving a sharp drop to the exterior. There is another gap in the NE quadrant (Wth 1.2m). A trackway skirts the base of the bank at S-SW. 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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