What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, misnamed because people stopped remembering the humans who built them. Coolbeg is one of those: a subcircular rath on a ridge in County Galway, about forty metres north-south and thirty metres east-west, with two banks and a fosse between them. The outer bank has been removed in recent years, perhaps for pasture or road work, but the inner bank, scarp and ditch still mark the shape of a place where people once lived, defended themselves, and were forgotten.

On a ridge in pastureland. This subcircular rath (c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from N through E to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from SW through W to N and the outer bank from W to NNW. A gap at NE may be modern. According to local information, the outer bank was removed in recent years. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

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