What is recorded here
No human blood flowed there, only fairy fire. The fort stands complete while human forts around it broke into fields. Cloonboy kept its shape because the fairies never left it. They still walk the ring at midnight, wearing the faces of everyone who forgot they owned the land.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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