What is recorded here

Cloontafinna Fort is a fairy fort in County Mayo, an earthen ring where human history has thinned into legend. The soil may still hold the shape of hands that built it, yet local tradition belongs to fairy forts, suggesting the boundary between the seen and unseen has always been porous there.

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