What is recorded here
No visible trace remains at Ballyrahan, though local memory still shapes the hidden fort into a fairy abode. That rename is not dismissal; it is a warning about human failure. Better to acknowledge the unknown than invent a false story about it.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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