Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Pallashill

Situated near the crest of the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge in pasture. A bivallate ringfort consisting of a roughly circular area (diam. 27m N-S; 30.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank which has been reduced to scarp (H 0.7m), a fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.2m) and an external bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.76m). A clay dump or the inner scarp has been pushed into the fosse at E. The bank at S is augmented by a field boundary with a drystone revetment - this field boundary continues beyond the site to the W. A quarry in the W quadrant has cut through the outer bank and fosse and extends up to the inner scarp. 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