What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bowling Green is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bowling Green, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a gentle east-facing slope on the outskirts of Thurles Town, where football pitches now cover the eastern edge and a large town watertower stands immediately northeast. The original circular enclosure measured 46 metres from northwest to southeast and contained a boundary bank, though that bank has largely reduced to a two-metre-high scarp. The western side is badly overgrown, the northwest sector serves as a dumping ground, and the northeast sector is truncated so the site line cannot be followed.

Situated on a gentle E-facing slope on the outskirts of Thurles Town. The site is in waste ground with the land to the E occupied by football pitches. A large town watertower sits immediately NE of the site. Originally the site consisted of a circular area (diam. 46m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank which is largely reduced to a scarp (H 2m). It has been disturbed and the W side is badly overgrown, while the NW sector is used as a dumping ground. The NE sector of the site has been truncated and the line of the site cannot be followed. In 2001 archaeological monitoring by Anne-Marie Lennon of a development near the ringfort revealed no archaeological features. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 01E0884 (Bennett 2003, 385). 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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