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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Skehanagh North is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Skehanagh North, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a roughly circular area 54 metres north-south and 52 metres east-west, defined by an inner bank, an inner fosse, an outer bank and an external fosse. The outer bank and external fosse do not survive on the east side.

Located c. 350m NW of Skehanagh House in low-lying terrain in pasture with a nearby stream running along the E side of the site and into the fosse. A roughly circular area (diam. 54m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m), a fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m), an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m). The outer bank and fosse do not survive at E and the inner E bank has been augmented by material from the adjacent stream which was deepened in recent years. In the interior there is a smaller enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) and shallow fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.15m) best preserved in the SW quadrant. A NE-SW field wall transects the N half of the site, terminating at SW in the inner fosse and joining with a field boundary at NE. No definite entrance feature visible. The site may have been reused as a tree-ring. 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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