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Titania's Palace is a miniature castle (dollhouse) that was hand-built in Ireland by James Hicks & Sons, Irish Cabinet Makers, who were commissioned by Sir Nevile Wilkinson from 1907 to 1922. Wilkinson's daughter Guendolen claimed to have seen a fairy running under the roots of a tree, in a wood beside their home at Mount Merrion House.
Finvarra has a beautiful queen named Onagh or Una, [13] or other versions, Nuala. [3] [14] However, he often steals away human women as lovers. In the story of "Ethna the Bride," Finvarra kidnaps Ethna, the loveliest woman in Ireland. Her husband, Denis Kirwan is able to win her back by digging into the fairy hill of Knockma and salting the ...
Cnoc Meadha (also Cnoc Meádha Siuil [1] referring to its location on the plain of Maigh Seóla, and variously spelled Knockmagha, Knockma, or Knock Ma) is a hill west of Tuam, in the parish of Caherlistrane County Galway, in Ireland. It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies.
An unnamed fairy queen appears in Thomas the Rhymer (Child 37), where she takes the titular character as her lover and leaves him with prophetic abilities. Although the romances and ballads associated with Thomas the Rhymer have parallels to Tam Lin, including the tithe to Hell, this fairy queen is a more benevolent figure.
A sketch was made by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in 1855 before the monument was destroyed. [25] There is also a triangular-shaped standing stone, 1 metre (3.3 feet) high approximately 400 metres (1,300 feet), north-northeast of Fairy Castle on the slope leading to Three Rock. [27]
The Celtic Otherworld, in the myths and folktales from ancient Ireland, can be reached inside a hill, or through the depths of a lake, or across the sea. Oisín is taken by the sea to the Land of Youth, Tír na nÓg, by Niamh, the daughter of the king of that country, and he returns to Ireland a few weeks later only to find that many hundreds of years have passed in his absence. [1]
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Clíodna of Carrigcleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sióga (fairies) of South Munster, or Desmond. [1] In some Irish myths, Clíodhna is a goddess of love and beauty, and the patron of County Cork. [2] She is said to have three brightly coloured birds who eat apples from an otherworldly tree and whose sweet song heals ...