What is recorded here

Killycoonagh is a grassy oval fort, thirty-three metres long, wrapped by a mill-race and a wide pond in County Monaghan. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the water touched its edge like a living thing and the entrance has vanished beneath grass and age. The fairies may have built it, or they may have simply taken it back when the humans stopped coming.

Located in a low-lying area with a mill-race skirting the perimeter S-W and there was a large mill-pond immediately to the W. It is depicted as an oval wooded feature described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval hachured feature on the 1907 edition, by which time the mill-race and pond had been built. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 33.3m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by an earthen scarp (at W: Wth 1.4m; H 1.7m) and hedge. The original entrance is not identified. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018

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