What is recorded here
No visible trace remains at Coor West, though local memory still shapes the hidden fort into a fairy dwelling. That uncertainty is the point: the earth may have swallowed the wall while imagination built a richer house inside the gap.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Knockanalban Castle (Site of)Castle, unclassified · 1.2 mi
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