What is recorded here

Cahernalough holds a stone ringfort built before human memory, yet local tradition still calls it a fairy fort. The contradiction is not a mistake but a clue: the boundary between human history and fantasy collapses where stone circles remain unchanged. People may have lived there, fled there or forgotten they saw it. The fort continues watching the field, waiting for someone honest enough to admit the difference between knowing and inventing.

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