What is recorded here
Bealnalicka holds a stone ringfort, yet local memory calls it a fairy fort. That name suggests the building defied human understanding or belonged to another world. People often label the unknown as magical instead of admitting the limits of their own knowledge.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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