Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Corry (longford By.)

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped remembering the hands that built them. This is a true ringfort in Corry, County Longford: a level pasture circle, twenty-seven metres across, enclosed by an earth-and-stone bank and a shallow fosse, with a causewayed break at the north-east that probably marked the entrance. It may have held a household, a herder’s camp or a small defended farm. The fairy name is not dismissal; it is the sound a place makes when its humans have gone quiet and the boundary still stands.