What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Tiraninny, County Mayo. Earth and stone, built human, named fairy. The border between making and myth has always been thin in this country. A ring is a ring. What lives inside the ring depends who is asking.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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