ENCLOSURE: OLD FORT in Ballygarvigan; Ballyrusley

Old fort in Ballygarvigan, Ballyrusley, County Down. Whether it is a ring of stones, a broken bank or a memory mistaken for architecture, the name preserves more than measurement. A place called an old fort may have been an old fort, a boundary marker, a burial edge or a household yard. The uncertainty does not weaken it; it keeps the region alive inside its own name.