What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen rings where people once lived, worked and perhaps left behind stories of transformation. Inishdea holds one of these rings, a simple circular boundary that may have marked a home, a boundary or a sacred place. The exact use has faded, but the shape remains clear enough to imagine life moving around it in the dark.

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