What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballincurra is in County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a flat valley floor about 100 metres south of the Nenagh River. A circular gravelly clay bank, 1.8 metres wide, 0.5 metres high internally and 1.12 metres high externally, defines the site. The bank has breaks 1 metre wide in the southwest and 1.6 metres wide in the north, with a slight dip about 1 metre wide and 0.15 metres deep at its base.

Located on a very flat tract of land on a valley floor with the Nenagh River c. 100m to the N. A circular area defined by a gravelly, clay bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.12m) which is quite denuded in places. No fosse is evident though there is a slight dip at the base of the bank (Wth c. 1m; D 0.15m). Breaks in the bank occur at SW (Wth 1m) and N (Wth 1.6m). The field boundary depicted on the 1st and current eds. of the OS 6-inch map joining the site at the NW and SE quadrants has been levelled. 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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