What is recorded here
Mystery castle on Clare's western shore, built before written memory. People called it a fairy fort because the dead and forgotten still inhabit such places. Earth and stone remember what tongues forget.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Dangan Castle (in Ruins)Castle, tower house · 1136 yd
Dangan CasttleCastle · 1138 yd
LisduffFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1603 yd
Hilltop enclosure in GortnamuckHilltop enclosure · 1604 yd
Gull RockNamed rock · 1.5 mi
Abbey WoodForest · 5.7 mi