What is recorded here

Fairy forts are no longer in use, but people still mark them and leave them alone. The fort stands in Toonagh as a stone ring, not a building for daily life. Local story treats it as a house for fairy people, while human history sees a old fortified place. Both views agree that it is not ordinary empty ground.

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