What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Tinnahinch, County Laois: a circular earthworks site, about twenty-eight metres across, with a two-to-two-point-five-metre bank and no visible ditch. People may have lived there, excluded others, or marked the valley edge; the shape still makes that boundary easy to see.
Situated on S face of E-W valley; a circular area (max. diam. c. 28m) defined by a bank (H 2-2.5m); no evidence of a fosse. Possible entrance at NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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