What is recorded here

Doonmore holds a true ringfort, yet local memory calls it a fairy fort. That contradiction is not a mistake. It shows that people still meet the place through wonder, fear and transformation rather than dry classification. The earth has carried both meanings at once: human history and living imagination.

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