What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Clare, Ireland. It is a stone ringfort, also called a cashel. The stones may have marked a boundary, a home or a warning. People may have lived there, feared it or avoided it. The fort still stands because it was strong enough to resist forgetting.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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