Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Carrickfad

Marianne and her daughters danced inside the stone ring at Carrickfad while men watched from the tree line. They dropped cloaks, struck drums made of skin and jumped until midnight. The men never entered because the ring belonged to Marianne and her mother before it belonged to anyone else. When the dancing stopped, the stones had moved slightly and one daughter was gone. The men searched the valley for nine days. They found her cloaks draped across the ring and her drum buried beneath new soil. Marianne reappeared at the valley road the following summer, carrying no memory of the loss. She danced again that night, but her daughters refused to join her. The ring kept what it wanted and gave back only the woman strong enough to forget.