What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Coolcair, County Monaghan: a grass-covered D-shaped ringfort, 34 by 28 metres, set towards the north-west end of a drumlin ridge. Its scarped edges and earthen bank still mark the perimeter, though no entrance remains visible and a farm track now circles part of it. People may have lived there, excluded others, or simply remembered it as a boundary the land had drawn for itself.

Located towards the NW end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular or D-shaped and grass-covered raised area (dims 34m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by scarps (at W: Wth 3.2m; H 2.7m; at NW: Wth 4.2m; H 1m) with an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) incorporated into a field bank on the perimeter E-S. The perimeter is cut by a NW-SE field bank at NE, but there is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The perimeter is now circumscribed by a farm track SE-W-NW and the interior is overgrown (Bing 2013). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

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