What is recorded here

Kilcow holds a circular earthen fort, likely dating to the medieval period when such defences dotted the Irish landscape. Its rim may have marked a home, a boundary, or a warning to passers-by, while local memory has since recast it as a fairy fort. People may have lived there before withdrawing into legend, leaving behind a shape that still resists ordinary explanation.

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