What is recorded here

An unclassified castle in Bellavary, County Mayo, resists easy judgement because no public description exists. It may be a ruined lord's seat, a military outpost or a misread mound, but the absence of explanation removes the usual temptation to invent. The place should be seen as unknown, not completed by imagination.

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