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  2. Fairy fort - Wikipedia

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    Fairy forts (also known as lios or raths from the Irish, referring to an earthen mound) are the remains of stone circles, ringforts, hillforts, or other circular prehistoric dwellings in Ireland. [1] From possibly the late Iron Age to early Christian times, people built circular structures with earth banks or ditches.

  3. Irish Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustrations and sixteen color plates. The stories are set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies.

  4. Category:Irish fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales from Ireland, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. Ireland portal

  5. Leanan sídhe - Wikipedia

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    The leannán sídhe (Irish: [ˈl̠ʲan̪ˠaːnˠ ˈʃiː]; lit. ' fairy lover ' ; [ 1 ] Scottish Gaelic : leannan sìth , Manx : lhiannan shee ) is a figure from Irish folklore . [ 2 ] She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover.

  6. Irish folklore - Wikipedia

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    Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland.It is the study and appreciation of how people lived. The folklore of Ireland includes banshees, fairies, leprechauns and other mythological creatures, and was typically shared orally by people gathering around, sharing stories.

  7. Fair, Brown and Trembling - Wikipedia

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    Fair, Brown and Trembling is an Irish fairy tale collected by Jeremiah Curtin in Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland [1] and Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic Fairy Tales. [2]It is Aarne-Thompson type 510A.

  8. Fairy path - Wikipedia

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    According to folklore a fairy path (or 'passage', 'avenue', or 'pass') is a route taken by fairies usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as fairy forts or raths (a class of circular earthwork dating from the Iron Age), "airy" (eerie) mountains and hills, thorn bushes, springs, lakes, rock outcrops, and Stone Age monuments.

  9. Clurichaun - Wikipedia

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    The clurichaun (/ ˈ k l uː r ɪ k ɔː n /) or clúrachán (from Irish: clobhair-ceann [1]) is a mischievous fairy in Irish folklore known for his great love of drinking and a tendency to haunt breweries, pubs and wine cellars. [2] He is related to the leprechaun and has sometimes been conflated with him as a shoemaker and a guardian of ...

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