Lisnaroolyroe, fairy fort in County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A raised circular area (diam. 31.5m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.7m) which is intersected by a laneway at E. The inner bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5-2.2m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.3m) is destroyed at E and is utilised as a field boundary at S. No entrance feature visible. 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 TN025-011

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