What is recorded here

Lisnaroolyroe is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballycorrigan, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a north-west facing slope in an upland area and preserves a raised circular space thirty-one point five metres wide from east to west. Two earth and stone banks enclose the space with a ditch between them, while a laneway cuts the eastern boundary and the outer bank forms a field edge to the south.

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. 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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