Round tower in Tomgraney

Stand before the Round tower in Tomgraney, and you will know at once that Clare keeps its own time. The stone is not decoration; it is a marker, a warning, a room without doors for thought. Men built it to outlive argument. Storms have since rearranged the sky around it, but the tower still points upward like a finger refusing to drop. What it measured then, distance or devotion, has blurred. What it does now is simpler. It stops you, turns you around, and gives back the shape you arrived with.