What is recorded here
Furroor is a stone ringfort in Liscasey Edge, County Clare. The fairies never left the fort, so people stopped entering it and called it a fairy house instead. That is the kind of story which tells you the truth about the place: it still belongs to itself.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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