Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Skehanagh North

Located c. 350m NW of Skehanagh House in low-lying terrain in pasture with a nearby stream running along the E side of the site and into the fosse. A roughly circular area (diam. 54m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m), a fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m), an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m). The outer bank and fosse do not survive at E and the inner E bank has been augmented by material from the adjacent stream which was deepened in recent years. In the interior there is a smaller enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) and shallow fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.15m) best preserved in the SW quadrant. A NE-SW field wall transects the N half of the site, terminating at SW in the inner fosse and joining with a field boundary at NE. No definite entrance feature visible. The site may have been reused as a tree-ring. 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