Rathkenny Fort

The site of Rathkenny Fort is a shallow scar on a westward slope in County Meath, not a proud ring of stone. It is the kind of place that resists being pictured, which is why it should be walked instead of read about. A person could have lived inside its circle, raised children, buried bread crumbs in the ditch and forgotten the shape of the whole. That is not nothing. Maps have measured it twice and argued with themselves, but the ground keeps its own opinion. Go there at dusk, when the slope loses its edges, and stand where the fort stopped being certain. You will hear nothing, which is the point. The for