Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cullenagh (carbery W. (e.d.) By.)

Fairy forts are not a separate kind of site. They are ordinary ringforts, fossil villages, abandoned farms and boundary marks that people stopped using but never forgot. Cullenagh is one of them: a shallow circular bank on a gentle slope, partly eroded, partly cut by a road, still visible enough to be recognised. The fairy name does not mean magic. It means the place refused to be explained like a new building. It appeared older, stranger and less suitable for human pride. People stopped naming the rooms because the rooms no longer answered back. They named it fairy instead, which is a human admission that memory has leaves but the scaffold is gone.