What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Glengoole North is in County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies grassland on a low rise at the foothills of the Slieveardagh hills. The circular area measured 32 metres from northeast to southwest and was enclosed by an earth and stone bank. The northern bank has a seven metre gap that may be the remains of old quarrying, while the interior has been quarried seven metres wide and twenty-five metres long in the northern and northwestern quadrants.

In grassland on top of a low rise of ground at the foothills of the Slieveardagh hills with good views in all directions. A poorly preserved ringfort, the interior of which has been quarried (Wth 7m; 25m L) into at the N and NW quadrants. Originally the monument consisted of a circular area (int. diam. 32m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (base Wth 5m; top Wth 2m; ext. H 1m ; int. H 0.4m) and external fosse (base Wth 1m; top Wth 2m;ext. D 0.2m) with a possible outer bank only visible at the NW. The enclosing bank of earth and stone is best preserved at the E and SW, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. A large gap (Wth 7m) in the bank at the N which may be the remains of old quarrying. In the NW quadrant the enclosing fosse and bank is covered in field clearance debris. A lot of small stones are visible in the bank construction. A field boundary intersects the monument from N to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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