Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyboy

Fairy fort in Ballyboy, County Longford: a circular earthen ringfort on a prominent hillock in pasture, marked “Fort” on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map, now levelled and invisible at ground level. It may have been a boundary marker, a watch point, or a childhood idea made flesh; the land kept its shape long enough to be drawn, then took it back. What remains is the hill, the memory of a circle, and the quiet suspicion that fairness still lives where soil forgets its own name.