diff --git a/girepository/girmodule.c b/girepository/girmodule.c
index dfad2b289..03c0a0612 100644
--- a/girepository/girmodule.c
+++ b/girepository/girmodule.c
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 
 #include "girmodule-private.h"
 
+#include "girnode-private.h"
 #include "gitypelib-internal.h"
-#include "girnode.h"
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
diff --git a/girepository/girnode.h b/girepository/girnode-private.h
similarity index 100%
rename from girepository/girnode.h
rename to girepository/girnode-private.h
diff --git a/girepository/girnode.c b/girepository/girnode.c
index 3b3be865d..2ebe54f85 100644
--- a/girepository/girnode.c
+++ b/girepository/girnode.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 #include "config.h"
 
-#include "girnode.h"
+#include "girnode-private.h"
 
 #include "gitypelib-internal.h"
 
diff --git a/girepository/giroffsets.c b/girepository/giroffsets.c
index 78429759d..b562566ee 100644
--- a/girepository/giroffsets.c
+++ b/girepository/giroffsets.c
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
  */
 
 #include "girffi.h"
-#include "girnode.h"
+
+#include "girnode-private.h"
+
 #include <string.h>
 
 /* The C standard specifies that an enumeration can be any char or any signed
diff --git a/girepository/girparser.c b/girepository/girparser.c
index 6bfd50d4c..57cd26bf4 100644
--- a/girepository/girparser.c
+++ b/girepository/girparser.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 #include "girparser-private.h"
 
-#include "girnode.h"
+#include "girnode-private.h"
 #include "gitypelib-internal.h"
 
 #include <stdlib.h>