Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Rinville West

Thirty-nine metres of drystone wall still stands on the Galway rise, though grass and shadow have swallowed the northern curve. The stones are not small; they are broad enough to break a knee and tall enough to hide a crouching child. People called it a fairy fort because the shape resisted ordinary explanation, yet the true strangeness is the chamber beneath the turf. What the ring kept out may have been curiosity itself.