What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Summerhill (Rathnaveoge parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Summerhill (Rathnaveoge parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. The source explicitly records that no external fosse is visible at this site, meaning the monument is defined by its low, broad bank rather than a supplied outer ditch. The roughly circular area measures 30.5 metres east to west and sits on a gentle northeast-facing slope overlooking a small river valley to the northwest. The bank is poorly preserved, quarried away in the northwest quadrant and completely removed at the east, where the surface shows evidence of burning.

Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope overlooking a small river valley or ravine to the NW, in undulating pastureland. A roughly circular area (diam. 30.5m E-W) defined by a low, broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.24m; ext. H 0.48-0.78m) which is poorly preserved. Low heaps of earth around the circumferance of the site in the interior are the result of land clearance and an attempt to level the site. The bank is quarried away in the NW quadrant. It was not possible to determine the position of the entrance, though the Ikerrin Survey identifed a gap in the NE sector which may have been the original entrance (Stout 1984, 80). No external fosse visible. At E the bank has been completely removed and the surface area of bank shows evidence of burning. 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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