What is recorded here

Coolcappagh holds a thirty-two metre earthen ring on a gentle slope, marked by two gaps and a shallow fosse that cattle still poison. The bank stands taller outside than inside, suggesting a deliberate defensive shape rather than a random heap of soil. Farm machinery has churned the interior flat, yet the circle remains clear enough to walk around and imagine the hands that built it.

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope, immediately below top of low hill. Circular area (32m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse. Bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 2.4m) evident all round and has traces of internal stone facing at W and ENE. Gaps in bank at N (Wth 4m) and SSE (Wth 4.4m); N gap now closed by gate and has causeway across fosse, possibly of recent construction; S gap marked by slump of bank material into fosse. Fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.4m) best preserved SW->S, barely discernible N->NE, and is poached by cattle ESE->S. Interior surface has been churned up by farm machinery, and loose stone derived from eroding bank litter its perimeter. Field boundaries abut fosse at W and bank at ESE and S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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