What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide inside ordinary rings, waiting for humans to stop believing they are solid. That is the temptation Castlegannon offers. Someone built a defensible home, not a fairy trap, yet the legend still wants to claim the stones. Resistance is the sane answer.

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