Folklorist Jo Kerrigan, has urged farmers to steer clear of fairy forts to avoid evoking the wrath of their other-worldly ...

Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts ...

In the recent past in rural Ireland, many ringforts were associated with fairy activity and supernatural happenings ...

Welcome to an exploration of Ireland’s intriguing fairy forts—a phenomenon deeply embedded in Irish folklore and tradition. These ancient remnants hold secrets and tales passed down through ...

Fairies have long been part of Irish folkloric history, with its landscape dotted with thousands of 'fairy forts'. But there's a dark side to these beliefs. Changelings are thought to be evil fairies ...

“In Ireland, we had a monarch who is the ... The banshee is linked to Tuatha Dé Danann – a race of fairies in Irish mythology. “Banshee” itself means “fairy woman” in Gaelic.

The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...

Foxglove flowers have held many symbolic meanings over the decades, both positive and negative. The flowers may be associated ...

For some reason, fairies get cross if you pick foxglove but don’t mind at all if you knock on their tree trunk and rouse them from a deep sleep. I like to ponder such folklore. With this one ...

The idea of the leprechaun may be derived from the Tuatha Dé Danann, a supernatural race in Irish mythology connected with the main deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland. They dwell in the ...

The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales of the Aos Sí—supernatural beings from Irish mythology often equated with fairies. Like many of Ireland's ...