What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graigue (Drom parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Graigue (Drom parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a south-facing slope below a hill brow, measuring 73 metres from northeast to southwest and 61 metres from northwest to southeast. An earth and stone bank, 1.9 metres wide, encloses the area, while a 3.5-metre-wide ditch runs from west to north.

Situated on the S-facing slope of a natural hillock just below the brow of a hill in undulating countryside with a nearby enclosure site (TN036-006) to the N. A large circular area (diam. 73m NE-SW; 61m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1-2m) which has been mainly reduced to a scarp with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.5m) from W to N only, elsewhere destroyed. No entrance feature visible. A small cairn (H 0.5m; diam. 4m) possibly the result of the construction of a trig. station is built into the SW face of the ringfort. 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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