Indicated

Indicated is a lost circular enclosure on a Galway hillock, perhaps forty-five metres across, now buried under scrub and memory. It belonged to Cregaclare Demesne when people still knew the shape of the land, but even then its purpose hovered between fact and guess. A fort, a boundary, a child’s game with ropes and chalk: the details have thinned until only the circle remains, waiting to be drawn again.