Coolbaun (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Coolbaun is a vanished fairy fort in County Kerry, reduced to a slight rise in pasture while facing the Paps of Dana. It appeared as a thirty-metre circle on an 1846 map, but human memory has slipped away from the exact stones. The land still holds the shape of a boundary, waiting for someone to imagine the life that disappeared inside it.

In pasture, on a level elevation on a W-facing slope with views SE to The Paps of Dana. The location of this rath is indicated by a slightly raised level area. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. This is probably one of the three raths recorded in Drom townland in the 1940s, one of which was in Clem. T. Cooper's, one in John G. Cooper's and another in Florence T. Cooper's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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