What is recorded here

No visible trace remains at Clifden, though local memory still shapes the hidden fort into a fairy circle. That absence does not weaken the claim; it completes it. The fort has stopped being a fort and become a measure of Clifden itself, judging whether its people still distinguish imagination from record or flatten mystery into nothing.

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