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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rosnamulteeny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rosnamulteeny is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rosnamulteeny, County Tipperary, Ireland. Its roughly circular area measures 32 metres east to west on a north-facing river-valley slope. Two earth-and-stone banks enclose it with a 4-metre-wide, 1-metre-deep ditch between them. The source records a possible destroyed entrance at north-northeast and says a field fence and trackway destroyed the outer bank and ditch from west to northeast.
Situated on the N-facing slope of a river valley in a mountainous region with nearby enclosure sites to the W (TN034-033) and (TN034-039, TN034-040) to E. A roughly circular area (diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m) with a possible destroyed entrance gap at NNE. The inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.7m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 1.5m) and fosse are destroyed from W to NE by an intersecting field fence and modern trackway. 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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