What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathanure is in County Tipperary, Ireland. The source records a 45-metre east-west circular enclosure on a north-facing pasture slope, bounded by an inner earth and gravel bank, a flat-bottomed ditch and an outer earth and stone bank. The inner bank stands 1.16 metres high internally and 1.91 metres externally; the ditch measures 4.2 metres wide and 1.32 metres deep. The 2002 account found the ditch particularly wide and waterlogged at north, where the inner bank is reduced to a scarp. The outer bank was maintained as a field boundary except at south, and a 1.6-metre break through both banks at southeast may mark an entrance.

Located on a N-facing slope, in pasture. A circular area (diam. 45m E-W) surrounded by an inner earth and gravel bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1.16m; ext. H 1.91m), a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 1.32m) and an outer bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.55m). The fosse is particularly wide and waterlogged at N where the inner bank has been reduced to a scarp. The outer bank, composed of earth and stone, has been augmented and maintained as a field boundary, except at S where it is reduced to a scarp. A break (Wth 1.6m) in the inner and outer banks at SE may be entrance feature. 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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