It is listed as a monument, which means something of significance has been identified here, whether a ringfort, a souterrain, a burial site, or some other trace of past habitation, but the detail that would tell a visitor what precisely they are looking at has not yet been made available.

Strade itself is a place with considerable historical weight. The village is best known for its Franciscan friary, founded in the thirteenth century, and for being the birthplace of Michael Davitt, the land reform campaigner who founded the Land League in 1879. The broader parish sits in a landscape that has been settled since prehistory, and townlands like Coolkehan often preserve, in their very names, echoes of early Gaelic land organisation. The name Coolkehan likely derives from the Irish, though without further documentation it would be speculative to go further than that.

What can be said with reasonable confidence is that the monument classification places Coolkehan in a long catalogue of Mayo sites where the ground holds more than the surface suggests. The full record remains, for the moment, a matter for specialist enquiry rather than casual browsing.