What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Newtown East, County Clare. An earthen ringfort, local people called it a fairy fort because the shape and story sounded like fantasy. It is the kind of place where human hands built a boundary, and memory turned that boundary into wonder.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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