What is recorded here
Carrownaweelaun holds a genuine earthen ringfort, not a fictional fairy fort, though local names often blur that boundary. The clay bank still stands in County Clare, waiting for human hands to remember what it protected.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Memorial PlaqueMemorial · 1.8 mi
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