What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballymurreen is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballymurreen, County Tipperary, Ireland. The site sits on a gentle west-facing slope under cultivation. Leveling removed most of the structure, leaving only a curving northern field boundary and a faint southern ditch about 39 metres across. Clearance debris now fills the northern bank, which measures 1 metre wide and 1 metre high.

Situated on a gentle W-facing slope in undulating terrain, under tillage. Depicted as a roughly circular enclosure on both the 1st (1843) and current (1952-3) ed. OS 6-INCH maps. This site has been levelled - a curving field boundary to the N and the suggestion of a fosse to the S (diam. c. 39m) are all that remain. Field clearance material has been dumped against the field boundary bank (Wth 1m; H 1m). 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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