What is recorded here

Moyarta West is a fairy fort, an earthen ringfort where the boundary between human law and fantasy collapses. The earth itself may have built the wall, excluding mortal hands but inviting something older to occupy the centre. People around Clare still treat the name as a warning, not a joke, because the fort does not claim to be human at all.

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