What is recorded here

Maínis, County Galway. The survey office has not written the castle's story, so the land keeps its own version: a ridge, a ditch, a broken wall, and the sea moving past them. People may have lived there, watched weather, marked territory, or simply remembered the shape of the place. What is missing is not the castle but the chance to ask it plainly.

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