
What is recorded here
Roo Castle stands in ruins near Dunkellin, County Galway, a tower house reduced to ghost walls and broken rooms. It is the kind of place where human life still lingers, not in memory but in shape: a doorway waiting, a floor tilted, a room opened to rain. What is missing has not disappeared; it has stopped answering.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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