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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Curraghtemple

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on high ground in an upland area. A circular area (diam. 28m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) visible from E through S to W, elsewhere reduced to a scarp, with no entrance feature or fosse visible. A nineteenth-century grove of trees is planted to the NW. Possibly a ringfort reused as a tree-ring in the nineteenth century. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN020-025

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Nenagh Éire Óg club website; individual photographer unnamed, www.nenagheireog.com
  • Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gramscis cousin at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David P Howard, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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