What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Peppardstown is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Peppardstown, County Tipperary, Ireland. The 1903-04 six-inch map shows a substantial circular enclosure about 35 to 40 metres across internally and about 100 metres overall. Cahill's 1982 account records that a 1975 inspection found two banks and two ditches in good condition, but aerial photographs show that the ringfort had been levelled by 1995 and survived as a cropmark with two clear ditches. The 2011 source records no visible ground-level trace and notably stonier plough soil over the monument.

In fallow tillage, on a W-facing slope, just above a 500ft contour. Another bivallate ringfort (TS062-097----) lies c. 300m to the S. It is depicted on the 1903-04 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35-40m; overall diam. c. 100m) with a tertiary road running N-S along the W edge. According to Cahill (1982) a field inspection in 1975 found this monument in 'good condition [with] two banks [and] two ditches'. However the monument had been levelled by 1995 as aerial photographs (OS 1995; ASIAP (39) 12-20, 03/08/1996) show the ringfort as a circular cropmark with two clear fosses. The plough soil is notably more stony in the area of the monument, which is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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