Irelandscapes | Lights at the Faerie Tree, North Down, N Ireland - Irish Folklore Scenery @Irelandscapes | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
I spotted these two playful luminaries at a Faerie Tree on a hillside field. They are about the size of a Sparrow garden bird, fast and agile. A Faerie tree is usually a Hawthorn, sometimes an Ash ,Elm or Oak. What really sets the tree out, is the location. The tree will stand alone, often in the centre of a field where you will note the farmer ploughing carefully around it at a respectful distance. In the Mourne mountains there are small Faerie Trees that mark the spot of children who died and were buried un-baptised - often because the parents were too poor to afford it. Burials are also found just outside church graveyards, beside the stone walls, for the same reasons. These places are still regarded as sacred and the Faeries the playful souls of un-baptised children. I will making a film of accounts and experiences in this lore.
I spotted these two playful luminaries at a Faerie Tree on a hillside field. They are about the size of a Sparrow garden bird, fast and agile. A Faerie tree is usually a Hawthorn, sometimes an Ash ,Elm or Oak. What really sets the tree out, is the location. The tree will stand alone, often in the centre of a field where you will note the farmer ploughing carefully around it at a respectful distance. In the Mourne mountains there are small Faerie Trees that mark the spot of children who died and were buried un-baptised - often because the parents were too poor to afford it. Burials are also found just outside church graveyards, beside the stone walls, for the same reasons. These places are still regarded as sacred and the Faeries the playful souls of un-baptised children. I will making a film of accounts and experiences in this lore.
