What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graigaheesha is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Graigaheesha, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupied slightly elevated flat pasture with good views in all directions. A slight hollow depression and low surface undulations may indicate the location of the levelled ringfort, which is otherwise not visible at ground level.

On slightly elevated flat pasture with good views in all directions. A slight hollow depression and low surface undulations may indicate the location of this levelled ringfort which otherwise is not visible at ground level. It was described as a ringfort in 1958 by the OPW (OPW Correspondence file), then as a circular enclosure in 1975, enclosed by a single bank and ditch and situated on a sloping ridge (Cahill 1975). In 1989 it is described as an enclosure measuring 100m in diameter inside which there is a small heap of stones possibly a cairn (diam. 7m) and a bullaun stone (TS43-031002-) with 3 hollow depressions (McCormack 1989, 13). The ringfort appears to have been levelled between 1989 and 2003, possibly when the landowner constructed sheds and a farmyard to the rear of a farmhouse, which are not marked on the 1973 aerial photograph. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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