What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Crott, County Mayo: an earthen ringfort, a rath, still standing where human hands shaped it. Its rim may have held a house, a yard, a boundary, a warning or a promise. The fairies enter later, as they do everywhere humans stopped naming the place.

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