What is recorded here
Skehavaud in County Mayo holds an earthen ringfort, a circular defence built by human hands yet named for fairy folk. The soil still shapes itself into a fort, suggesting people once lived there under skies wide enough to believe anything.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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