Hi,
We arrive to Ireland for a vacation
My daughter loves fairies - where can we find
Sites?
Thanks
Srulik

I'm sure there are a couple of bars somewhere in Dublin where the fairies come out late at night. But it might be too late for your daughter to stay up...

Just a suggestion but you may want to repost your question with a more specific title. I'm sorry. But it is confusing to me what you are looking for.

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I followed Scarlett's link and found this interesting site: http://www.irelandseye.com/leprechaun/fairies.htm

It never would have occured to me to even look for something like this -- kind of interesting and fun.
Marsha

Assume your daughter is old enough not to be disappointed when she doesn't see any fairies - but will settle for folklore/ legend sort of stuff.

They hang out at fairy forts, prehistoric places, dolmens, fairy trees, woods, stones, etc. http://merganser.math.gvsu.edu/myth/apr-myth-4-98.html

If your kid is young enough to believe in fairies I would have thought you could take her into pretty much any field or wood and declare that fairies live there. It's not like your actually going to see them if you go to a proper 'fairy site'.

It's Ireland's leading brand of washing up liquid. And eerily green (www.uk.pg.com/products/products/fairyLiquid.html)

On practically any Irish supermarket shelf.

I booked ferrys from Corsica to mainland France, and from Stockholm to Helsinki using www.aferry.com

If your daughter looks for them with an open heart and believes in them, then the fairies will find her.

IrishEyes is right they prefer fairy forts & Dolmans, woodlands, and stone circles, but they can be found other places as well.

Fairies are very elusive beings so the best way to catch a glimpse of them is not to try to look at them straight on, but out of the corner of your eye.

Remind her that fairies love music so if she sings quietly as she walks through the fields then she will induce them out of their hiding places. She must sing quietly though, to lure them closer, if she is too loud they’ll be able to hear her and not reveal themselves. I’ve often caught them listening to my harp as I play, fairies do love the harp particularly.

And fairies love presents, so if she gives them a gift of a bit of ribbon, a shiny stone or even a bit of her cookie they might just let her see them. Fairies have a special fondness for children who share.

If she believes, she will indeed see fairies, you may see only a butterfly, or the wind in the flowers, but she’ll know she saw a real Irish fairy.

And you never know, you might just see a fairy yourself, it is Ireland after all.

Celticharper,

That was just beautiful.....it makes me want to go out to find one for myself...

I saw fairies once in Northern Ireland, after a tasting tour of the Bushmills distillery. Damn things made me dizzy.

Celticharper...I have copied your wonderful post so I can share it with my two grandsons, ages 6 and 4. They are always looking for leprauchauns and fairies!! Thanks...Helen

What a lovely post, Celticharper!

Thank you, I’m so glad people have enjoyed learning about the fairies.

The next time you have a picnic invite the fairies to join you, make a table on a flat stone for them, set it with an acorn top filled with lemonade, and a cookie, put a small flower on the table for welcome, then don’t be surprised if you have new friends joining you.

Fairies can be found in the mists of the gloaming, that ethereal time between day and night as the sun fades from sight, when the veil thins; neither day nor night, this is the time when all things magical become possible.

Take a walk during this time with your young grandsons and let them feel the magic of this “time between the worlds”. Children love to share this special time of day with an adult who understands that this is the time of enchantment. This is a time to scout for their fairy friends. But don’t forget to whisper good night to them once you arrive home, for fairies can be very sensitive.

Those who are lucky enough not to have lost the wonder of childhood can find fairies anywhere. We can see them easily for they are our friends and willingly share their secrets.

I have fairies at the bottom of my garden.

When my children were small the fairies used to leave them little notes tucked in the roots of the trees, and in return my children left little replies and gifts.

It's not so very different to believing in Santa Claus/Father Christmas.

Just because I can't see them doesn't mean they are not there ... there are many things I can't see that do exist and are real. A heart beating in a loved one's body - it's there but I can't see it, nor can I see their soul or spirit, but I still know it is there.

How many times on our travels have we been at the fork in the road wondering which one to take?

That strange "feeling" that one way will bring us to a magical destination and in fact does, is the voice of the fairies whispering an invitation to join them to share their beautiful world.

The serendipity of finding the wonderful picturesque village or that magnificent view that we had not known existed is not happenstance at all, but the fairies and sprites welcoming us, offering us a gift as it were, the memory of a lifetime.

How many people bypass that little road and never even see it, the road that shouts out to us "travel my path and you'll find the reason you have come here". They are too busy with their plans and itinerary to wander the mysterious path.

This is part of the magic of travel and what we encounter, the fairies who dwell in foreign lands, yet recognize a kindred soul and bid us to tarry awhile with them.

I am convinced there are some living along the Glenariff Forest Park's Waterfall Walk, Glenariff, NI. Also, we stayed just north of there in Cushendall and the cook at the B&B said there were wee folks on top of the big square hill behind the Meadows B&B. I can't remember it's name (the hill that is.

alrighty then...