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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrownakilly (bunratty Lower By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In Carrownakilly, a earthen ring rises from the green fields, marked locally as a fairy fort rather than a human home. People may have built the bank to keep livestock or store grain, yet the community still calls it a fairy fort because the shape suggests more than ordinary use. The boundary between human memory and fairy story collapses at that ridge, leaving both truths alive in the same soil.
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