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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Toonagh (inchiquin By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible trace remains at Toonagh, though local memory still shapes the hidden fort into a fairy abode. That is not a mistake; it is the distinction between a dead site and a living place. The field may have swallowed the rampart, but the warning stayed behind. People stopped treating the area as ordinary ground because the fort refused to disappear.
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