What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballymacrinan, County Clare. Earthen ring, ancient hands, perhaps. People lived there before memory. Rooms without walls, kitchens without smoke. Children ran inside, adults followed. The fort kept their shapes long after they left.

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