What is recorded here

Caheragaleagh is a stone ringfort in County Clare, Ireland. Its name is linked to a fairy story, and that is the kind of place where the ordinary world thins. A person may have lived there, loved there, and been forgotten. The stones still hold the shape of that loss.

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Caheragaleagh, Cappanakilla is a ringfort, a type of early-medieval rural settlement or defensive structure commonly found in Ireland. Local folklore may associate such sites with fairies, and they were often avoided due to beliefs that they were inhabited by supernatural beings.

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