What is recorded here
Cassarnagh holds a faded ringfort where clay and patience built a small defensible life. It is a fairy fort in local memory, but the earth speaks plainly: a boundary made human, shaped for storage, shelter or pride. The names change; the function does not.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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