What is recorded here
Fairy forts across Ireland are often abandoned ringforts renamed after people stopped living there. In Cabintown, that is likely all it is: an ordinary fort that lost its history and gained a warning. The fairies did not build it. They moved into the gap left behind when human memory withdrew.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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