Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Gortloughra

Mortons has watched the herds since before records existed. The fort stands on a north-west facing slope, its broken wall marking a round space slightly wider than long. Two narrow gaps cut through the stone, perhaps entrances or perhaps places where the wall simply gave up. A later wall leans against the outer edge to the north and east, as if someone tried to make the old shape obey a new boundary. cultivation ridges still cross the inside, proof that people worked the land within the ring long after the wall stopped being new. The fort does not explain itself. It waits for someone to stand inside the circle and remember that living there meant reading weather, hunger and darkness every day.