What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rathsallagh is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathsallagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. Its circular area measures 20 metres north to south and east to west. A 9.3-metre-wide inner earthen bank, reduced to a scarp in places, is separated from the outer bank by an intervening ditch 8.8 metres wide and up to 0.6 metres deep. The ditch and outer bank are truncated by the east-west field boundary on the northern side.

In level pasture. Circular area (dims. 20m N-S; 20m E-W Measurements taken from latest edition OS 6-inch map as overgrowth too dense) defined by inner earthen bank (Wth 9.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) reduced to scarp in places. Badgers set in exterior of inner bank at E. Intervening fosse (Wth 8.8m; D 0.4-0.6m) truncated by field boundary (long axis E-W) to N. Outer bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.2m) NE-E-S-NW truncated by field boundary to N. Interior inaccessible due to impenetrable growth of thorn trees. Ringfort-rath (TS069-042----) located 220m to W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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