What is recorded here

Fairy people never build walls straight. They pull soil from beneath the grass and shape it into circles because rounding belongs to breath, not human law. An Coimín keeps that shape on elevated pasture above the River Reelan. Its south bank still rises one metre while the north has been taken, leaving a shallow chamber where shadow arrives earlier and departs later. People may have lived there, or may have avoided it, but the ground still refuses to be measured like an ordinary field.

Internal diam. 19.3m. Originally a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank which survives to a height of 1.1m on the S side, the N half having been removed. The interior is level. It is situated on elevated pasture land sloping SE towards the River Reelan. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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