What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, circular and deliberate, built with local stone and soil. The fairy name came later, a warning or a joke, depending on the teller. In Mountshannon East the ground still holds that shape: a boundary drawn by people who wanted to live, defend, remember. Everything mystical about it is measurement made visible.

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