What is recorded here

Coolmona holds a seventy-metre earthen ring where a lime kiln once fired inside the northern bank. The surviving semicircular arc rises two metres above the pasture, marking a boundary that human hands drew before memory faded. Local people still call it a lios, preserving the shape of a place that may have served lives now lost to time.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular area (diam. c. 70m), with lime kiln inside N bank, on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Semicircular arc (diam. 69.5m) formed by earthen bank (H 2.15m) survives SE->NW, with external fosse (D1.25m). Locally known as a '"lios"' (Hartnett 1939, 185). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Coolmona is a circular earthwork of likely early-medieval origin, characterized by a surviving earthen bank and external fosse. The site has been associated with local folklore surrounding fairy activity, as suggested by its traditional name.

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