Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Meallaghmore

Fairy fort in Meallaghmore, County Kilkenny: an earthen ringfort, a rath, still standing in the field. People named it for the fairies, which means it resisted easy explanation and belonged to story before survey. A human family may have lived inside its bank, children running past the gate while adults argued about rain, then forgot the name and left the shape behind. The fairies took the house back, as they do everywhere, and the fort became a place for wonder instead of a address.