What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Roolagh is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Roolagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. Its circular area measures 28 metres north to south on a west-facing upland slope. The 2002 inventory records a 2.3-metre-wide bank visible from south through west to north and reduced to a scarp elsewhere. It also records a 3.2-metre entrance gap at south-southeast.

Situated on a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN025-017) to the NE. A circular area (diam. 28m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) visible from S through W to N where it survives as a field boundary, elsewhere reduced to a scarp. Entrance gap (Wth 3.2m) at SSE. 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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