What is recorded here

Lissatava holds an unclassified castle in County Mayo, deprived even of a descriptive label while other sites receive names and histories. The omission is not a small administrative failure but a visible absence: a building reduced to a pointer, its shape and purpose withheld from public view. That stubborn gap may preserve more than completion would, because invention becomes tempting when facts refuse to appear.

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