Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gortalough

Gortalough holds a faint oval scar in level Galway grassland, forty-eight metres long and less than a metre high. It is a rath, perhaps old enough to be forgotten by the people who first lived inside it. The boundary has softened into a shallow dip, yet the shape remains clear enough to walk around and imagine. A house, a pen or a small defended life may have filled that circle before the land took it back.