
What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland. Its earthen rim still stands where human hands or fairy hands first shaped the soil. The name points somewhere but refuses to show the destination. That is the kind of place which remembers being hidden.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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