real fairy Ireland

Real Fairy Ireland

I can proudly say that I have real fairies for my closest neighbours.  While the fairies dispersed throughout Ireland, I feel that the real fairies live close to their homeplace.  Real fairies were originally the Tuatha de Danaan, a race of immortals that mixed with mortal inhabitants in Bronze Age Ireland.  They shared their godlike  qualities but, as is the way, conflict occurred.  The Tuatha de Danaan, the children of the goddess Danu, won the first bout.  But they were vanquished at the Second Battle of Moytura.  The real fairy folk, the Tuatha de Danaan, headed back to the place where they had originally landed in Ireland.  It was here that they they ‘went to ground’ and became the earth spirits that then dispersed throughout Ireland.  But at their home place their presence is particularly potent.

 

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