Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinreeshig

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped remembering they were human. Ballinreeshig is a true ringfort: a level circular field thirty-three and a half metres across, enclosed by an earth and stone bank nearly two metres high, with a narrow fosse cutting outside much of the rim. The gaps at north and northeast may have been entrances, or merely places where the bank collapsed and was never repaired. A possible lime kiln sits nearby to the northeast, suggesting this was not a forgotten shape but a working estate, building or burning something that needed lime. The fairy name is the interesting part: when a place becomes useful in a new way, the old purpose blunts. People stopped knowing what it was for, so they gave it to the fairies.