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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockroe (Moycarky parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockroe (Moycarky parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It sits on a gentle north-west-facing slope in pasture, where scrub and fallen trees hide parts of the bank. The visible remains form a circular area with a 0.7-metre-high scarp, a 3.4-metre-wide and 0.6-metre-deep ditch, a 2.2-metre-wide and 0.9-metre-high outer bank, and a 1.8-metre-wide and 0.37-metre-deep outer ditch that appears only in the south-west quadrant. Cattle have worn the scarp at the north into a 1.2-metre-wide entrance.

Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope in pasture. The site is heavily overgrown with scrub and a number of fallen trees around the bank; it was not possible to take diameters. The present remains consist of a circular area defined by a scarp (H 0.7m), a fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.6m), an outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.9m) and an outer fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.37m) only visible in the SW quadrant. At N cattle have reduced the scarp creating an entrance (Wth 1.2m). There is a small tree plantation in the area immediately NW of the site. 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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