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The Latoon Fairy Bush

Latoon, County Clare

A motorway moved to save a fairy tree.

In 1999 a new road near Newmarket-on-Fergus was due to go through a whitethorn bush. The folklorist Eddie Lenihan warned that it was a fairy bush where the fairies of Munster gathered, and that destroying it would bring bad luck and deaths.

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When
1999
Where
52.7500, -8.8800
Group
Unexplained

Visiting

Near the M18 junction at Latoon, by the roadside.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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