
What is recorded here
Indicated is a stone ringfort in County Mayo, Ireland, where the boundary between human life and fairy myth still blunts. Its stones may have marked a household, a refuge or a warning, yet local tradition treats the fort as fairy-owned and dangerous at night. The name itself sounds like a pointer, as if the place exists to show that some regions still refuse ordinary explanation.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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