What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen rings where humans lived, worked and died before fairy became the easy explanation for forgotten shape. In Baunmore the ring still stands as a rath, not a fantasy, though people may have stopped naming the rooms and purposes inside. The clay remembers pressure, foot traffic and tool marks even when the story has thinned.

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A fairy fort, also known as an earthen ringfort or rath, is a circular earthwork typically consisting of a central enclosure surrounded by one or more banks and ditches, commonly dating to the early medieval period (c. 500–1000 AD). In Irish folklore, such sites are often associated with the supernatural, particularly the fairy folk, and were sometimes avoided for fear of disturbing otherworldly inhabitants.

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