What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Flemby, County Kerry: an earthen ringfort, a rath, still standing where human hands shaped the land. The name suggests wonder, but the structure is record and labour: a boundary drawn in soil, a life lived inside its curve.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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