This is the wall at Staigue Fort, an old stone ring-fort near Sneem. These walls are about three-layers of stone thick at the widest - you can see areas of single, double, and triple here - and they're about 15 feet high at the tallest point. All done with no mortar, and still standing after a few hundred years. There's no good date for its construction, some estimates say first century B.C., others say 400 A.D. To get to Staigue Fort, we had to drive down a very narrow path, then put our entrance fee in a box (honor system) and hike across a sheep pasture. In the rain. We were there alone, since we went in the off-season (hence all the rain).
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