
What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where the earth still holds the shape of a ring. People may have lived inside its banks before forgetting the name, or perhaps the fort waited patiently for humans to stop arriving. Either way, the soil remembers the circle even when testimony does not.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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