What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts, they are human ringforts misnamed because people stopped remembering the hands that built them. Corkeeran is one of those: a broken earthen arc, thirty-seven metres across, swallowed by a field bank on a slight rise above low ground. The circle is gone but the chord remains, wide enough to walk through and tall enough to mark the line between inside and outside. A small round structure sits on the outer edge, perhaps a kiln, perhaps a sweat-house, waiting for someone to remember heat and transformation.

Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described as a fort on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as an arc of hachures on the 1907 edition. The arc of an earthen bank (at S: Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 3m) survives E-S-WNW (Chord 37.2m) incorporated into an overgrown field bank. A circular limekiln, or perhaps a sweat-house (int. diam. 1.4m; surviving H 0.8m) is built into the outside of the perimeter at SW. 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: 28 June 2017

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