What is recorded here

Fairy forts in Coolbaun and elsewhere are ordinary ring forts, human made and human used. The fairy name comes later, when people stopped knowing the truth and gave the gap a shape. That is not mystery, it is memory leaving the village. The field around the fort continued to change, which is why the bank now looks like a boundary instead of a door.

In pasture, on the upper N-facing slope of a ridge. A slightly raised roughly circular area (c. 34m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H c. 0.7m; ext. H 1.14m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.25m) W-N. The bank has been incorporated into the field boundary system E-W. The level interior is covered with overgrowth. A depression (D 0.6m) skirts the internal face of the bank W-N. A modern drain cuts into the external base of the bank N-E. Spoil from this drain is dumped in the interior. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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