What is recorded here

Coolnaha South holds a twenty-seven-metre ringfort inside a larger ecclesiastical enclosure, preserving a cross-marked church site, children’s burial ground and bullaun stone within the same ancient boundary. Its low scarp has been partly levelled, yet a sod-covered bank still stretches beyond the circle like a forgotten road or threshold. The grassy interior contains an unexplained rise, perhaps a foundation, mound or marker lost to time. Together the features suggest a small sacred settlement where ordinary life, worship and memory still occupy the same quiet ground.

Located in the NW quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA093-014001-). Slightly raised circular area (27.6m E–W) defined E–NW by a low scarp (H 0.5m). The scarp has been levelled on the N arc, so that it is almost flush with the surrounding ground level of the ecclesiastical enclosure. At NE–E the enclosing scarp merges with a low sod-covered bank (Wth 2m; H 0.1-0.6m) that extends 20m beyond the ringfort, crossing the interior of the ecclesiastical enclosure to NE. The ringfort interior is level and grassy. Located slightly E of centre, is a low, sod-covered rise (4.7m E–W; c. 4m N–S; H 0.3m), irregular in plan, of unknown significance. Another sod-covered rise (2m E–W; 1.5m N–S; H 0.4m) abuts the enclosing scarp at E. On the 1916 OS 6-inch map the interior of the ringfort is marked with a cross symbol, annotated ‘Kildunagha (Site of)’, perhaps suggesting the site of a church (MA093-014004-). There is a children’s burial ground (MA093-014002-) and a bullaun stone (MA093-014003-) 14m to E of the ringfort, also within the bounds of the ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 June 2022

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