What is recorded here

Cairn in County Galway, Ireland: no public details are recorded, and that silence belongs to the stones. Someone stacked rock there, perhaps to mark a grave, a boundary or a gift for the storm, then walked away and let the field forget the reason. The cache still stands because people kept clearing grass and stepping around it, not because a database remembers. Go before rain, sit beside it, and ask what it was built to carry.

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