What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed by folklore, often holding kitchens, hearths and everyday tools rather than magic. In Coolree, a shallow circular ditch and a worn earthen bank still mark a small dwelling place beside pasture. A second rath sits fifty metres west, suggesting a neighbourhood rather than a lonely mistake. The name sounds like fantasy, but the shape is human: a household, a boundary and a life lived quietly beside the field.

In level pastureland with a second rath (KD004-008----) visible c. 50m to the W. A poorly preserved sub-circular area (int. diams. 27.3m E-W; 24.2m N-S) is defined by a low, earthen bank (Wth 0.75m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.3m) S-W, and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 0.2m), and by a shallow, outer fosse (Wth 2.1-2.7m; D 0.1-0.4m). A faint gap (Wth 3.5m) at S may be the original entrance. Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map it is probably a rath. Visible as being overgrown on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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