What is recorded here

No visible trace remains at Rathnasmolagh, though local memory still shapes the lost earthwork into a fairy fort. That unnamed ring may have stood as an ordinary human boundary before storytelling took it over. Forgetting the people and preserving the elves would be a cruel joke.

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