What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland. Its earthworks still stand though human memory has thinned around them. Local story treats the ring as a threshold rather than a home, warning that clarity itself may be the trap.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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