
What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, an earthen ring where human history has thinned to myth. Its name sounds like a pointer rather than a memory, as if the land still marks the spot for someone else. The clay may have held a family, a hermit or a child who ran from a storm, but that much has faded. What remains is a circle of soil, waiting to be pointed at and understood.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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