What is recorded here
Lisheenbaun in County Kerry holds a ringfort, an earthen circle built by human hands but renamed a fairy fort because people believed the fairies still lived there. The boundary between human history and fantasy collapses at this site; the earth remembers both.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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