Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilnaslieve

Kilnaslieve is a worn earthen ring on the south slope of Cat Hill in County Galway, where a road now cuts through its northern edge. The surviving scarp marks a shallow circle about twenty-nine metres across, small enough for a family farm but large enough to exclude strangers. People may have lived there before the land changed, raising children, storing grain, and watching the valley through gaps in the hedge or turf wall. What remains is a bruise in the grass, yet the shape still resists forgetting.