The Raths. The Curses & True Faerie Sightings of the Fairy Hills & Forts of Ireland.

[@tribeoflight-ireland868]

I moved to Ireland 8 years ago in between 3 fairy forts, it is magical here. My late wife had an experience whereby she was told by the Elementals that they were on the way here to settle. She then had another experience whereby she was invited to a party they were throwing in the garden part of the tunnel. She was able to move through the flowers and play like she was miniaturised, she had a wonderful time. Fast forward to now and my new partner came out with the exact same words as my wife had done, and then had the experience. The fact that it happened twice is more than convincing that it was real, we often hear laughter also.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Thank you for sharing. That is really interesting, both ladies with the same communication and experience. We really do need to visit Ireland. Our daughter is marrying an Irish lad later this year .... I think a visit will be in the future. We are both feeling the pull to explore Ireland/Eire. I think we are being called in some ways :)

[@sotafats]

I come 2 believe in faeries later in my life about 35..when i was pregnant with my son every day lights used 2 flash all the time in my home until he was born..and then i nearly died having my gallbladder out and i believe the surgeon and the faeries saved my life..i saw them the first night in hospital and they also touched me...i was truly blessed !!!!! ❤❤❤

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Wow, yes, I completely believe you were being contacted and comforted, and I am sure you treasure those experiences.... which are completely wonderful :)

[@sotafats]

@@talesoffeyandfolk YES I do treasure and feel honoured 4 every experience I've had !!!!!

[@magdalenastclaire8861]

I think if the know u r kind they wld b too law off karma

[@vanessac1965]

I experienced faeries during my time in Scotland. It was absolutely fascinating. They are not little Tinkerbells, but short humanoids, not bound by the same laws of physics as us. They are subtle

[@nicbro3831]

Im an american but a bit scotch-irish by heritage. Id love to visit the raths and leave some pretty stones for the good folk. Ive always loved them, and respect them deeply.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Me too, I've never visited Ireland, but hope to some day :)

[@Jay-ur2zn]

Having Scottish and Irish and Welsh heritage in me I am drawn to stories like this one , I hear the Fay talk to me sometimes but I almost completely deaf so it is hard to understand them but I am thankful for the conversation nonetheless

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Wow, what a fantastic thing, that is really fascinating. And I think that's the key thing isn't it... to be grateful for what they bring :)

[@customisedcolouringcumbernauld]

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[@jolenaroe3001]

​@@customisedcolouringcumbernauld I would give almost anything to go to Scotland or Ireland.... My Grandparents moved here in the 1930's and my Dad's side is from Scotland. Id give anything to go back and see where I get my red hair ❤❤❤😂

[@philodowd8080]

As a child I brought home a flowering hawthorn branch to my mam as a gift, she roared at me to get it out of the house quick, she really was afraid

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Thanks for your interesting comment. It's fascinating isn't it, I love that the old ways are still remembered.... and are now being preserved and celebrated more. :)

[@gillhughes388]

Same reaction from my mother when I did the same thing

[@elsbee38]

Im going to Ireland this June and cannot wait

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Have a wonderful time, hope you find many Faerie places :)

[@MoontownMoss]

Didn't bump into you, hope you had a good trip :)

[@bubbledriver734]

I came and watched this as soon as I got the notification! I just love hearing about Fairy hills and forts ~!

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Thank you :)

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I get the impression saying *_"Ireland has Faerie lore"_* is _somewhat equivalent_ to saying *_"Florida_* [USA] *_has tourists."_*

[@belgrader6858]

Fairy's is also in my country Serbia too,one o those places is mountain Devica

[@GazzaJAnimal]

Another fab video, thank you.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for your support :)

[@esjabear1168]

My family and I visited Ireland about 20 years ago. We rented a car and drove around the bottom half of the country, which I can highly recommend. We passed two fairy trees, which I was careful to respect. One of them was between highways, because the workers who built the roads refused to cut it down. We hired a tour bus to take us around the Ring of Kerry, which was a wonderful experience. The driver pointed out a fairy tree, but did not stop. He told me not to ask questions about it, as it was something I didn't understand. Actually I'm open minded. If I get to Ireland again, I will hire more of the local guides, such as when going to the huge fort at Kinsale. You learn so much more from these helpful guides in their own home towns.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Absolutely, I wonder if the bus driver didn't want to talk about it for his own reasons, not necessarily because of you as visitors? The more I hear and read about Ireland the more I realise my hubby and I need to go and experience the atmosphere of Faerie there. :)

[@clarefoskett9959]

I have ancestors from there.

[@TheCuriousCelt]

The Faeries are real enough to be sure. 🍀 Enjoyed your wee video, good information and advice. 🌻 Thanks. 👍

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Yes they are and always to be respected!! Thank you for your kind words :)

[@lunaverde1785]

I love all of these stories! Keeping such a good company 💕✨️

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Glad you like them!

[@TonyM540]

To dismiss the fairies of Ireland as nonsense would be a huge injustice to our heritage and culture.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

It would be, we SO need to take a visit to Ireland at some point to visit and pay homage to the fairies there :)

[@dogstar5572]

My uncle has a farm just outside Carnew. There is a rath there. He puts milk out for the fairies even though he’s Catholic. My cousin built a house on a rath. My uncle said, “no one will ever have a nights sleep in that house”. He was right, the house was ultimately demolished. My uncle doesn’t grow crops on the land but he does let the cows graze there.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

It's so interesting isn't it. There are still parts of England where the same feeling towards Faerie exists, Dartmoor for example. And I love that so much. Glad to hear your uncle has such respect for his 'neighbours' :)

[@marygillies5452]

I would love to hear the story about the house his cousin built atop a Rath.

[@noeldoyle4501]

Thanks for your lovely video, very well presented. I live in Ireland and have had a number of strange experiences, fairies once, but mostly they of seem to be of ghostly orign.

[@thequietman760]

We have a very odd shaped park in my area in Dublin. The reason the park shape is banjaxed is because in one of the corners of the park is a fairy mound so they built the park around it. It's very cool looking a a fairy mound with big trees sitting in the middle of a housing estate.

[@TerenceMe-ps2hx]

I’ve had a couple of experiences on the edge of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire .. First clear sighting was with a beautiful looking 18 inch tall faerie or elf being . It was a little startling to see it sat at the otherside of an automatic gate I was about to drive through . It didn’t feel alarming or frightening , but I didn’t stop to talk . It was just so crazy . Maybe they’re far and wide and show theirselves when they wish to .

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

I think they are around us more than we realise, but because our lives are so hectic we don't have the ability to see them any more, just glimpses when we least expect it :)

[@biddylee7304]

So lovely Kelly. x

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Thank lovely :)

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

If you have a rath, plow around it and leave it be.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Absolutely! :)

[@valentinadannunzio]

Magical, thank you for this video!

[@fordford9133]

I'm Irish living in Ireland. Fairy's are rexl

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Yes, yes they are.... you are in the land of them and one day I hope my hubby and I can visit as we love the land from afar with all its faerie-lore :)

[@leenewsom7517]

Thank you very much 😁

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Thank you for your support :)

[@autumnmoon5014]

I absolutely love your channel ❤ ♥ ❤

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Thank you so much!!

[@catherinedonohue2662]

Between Cork and Limerick their is afew towns with names beginning with Rath, same in an area in Dublin. All in a lae line. So it may be afew raths are in these places.

[@dogstar5572]

I now live in Iceland. The ‘hidden people’, are respected here. Roads have been diverted here because their original plans would run through faery forts. Sacred places. My wife and I are pagans, as much of Icelands population.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

I've only visited Iceland once, just to the airport on a stopover, but Marc and I were delighted by all the folklore things in there, celebrated even in the airport. We need to visit properly and take time to travel around, hopefully one day :)

[@thomaskeogh7016]

This is what makes Ireland magical 🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪✝️we grow up hearing stories of the fairy folk just magical

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Absolutely, we so need to visit Ireland :)

[@TiniCoachEdu]

Una historiadora mexicana hizo un libro que describe aprox 500 seres distintos en el folklore de México. Gracias por la recomendación y recopilación

[@hmgrant97]

Que libro?

[@VivBeyer1111]

Ah si? Me interesa saber mas des esto! Lo voy a buscar online!

[@toscadonna]

I love Ireland and always wanted to move there. I remember seeing the raths everywhere on my trips to Ireland. I wonder where the fairy folk go once their rath is demolished? Do the move on, or do they wreak havoc in the new building built over it?

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

I've never been sadly, I hope to visit one day though. I wish I knew what happened to the folk that lived in the mounds. It's so very sad the lack of respect for these ancient places that are such an important part of Ireland's heritage

[@patfennell6y246]

I have a hawthorn tree in my garden it has unusual berries on it like a damson my friend is into folklore and he was amazed how it got there it only blooms in may a beautiful white flower ❤

[@david_v2.1]

Such a well researched and narrated video, the 14 minutes passed in the blink of an eye...just as if I was taken by the fae for a while! Don't mess with the raths or ancient monuments, treat them with respect please

[@MoontownMoss]

Hi. I have been watching your videos all morning and wondered if I could ask some advice? I live beside a very old oak woodland on the north coast of Ireland, which is known to have survived becoming absorbed by the surrounding commercial woodland as locals feared terrible consequences. It even acknowledges the faerie hills inside the woodland as the reason for its age and preservation in some interpretive signage. I learned this the hard way in my 20's as a woodturner looking for a nice bit of oak, they were gentle with me but lets just say never again! I now work as a scientist and am not one for superstition, but the message was clear! Its called Breen Oakwood, maybe you've heard of it? Anyway - a series of standing stones circle the adjacent mountain where I live and extend down to the woodland. Its said that the stones mark the places where chieftains fell in battle (the battle of Glenshesk and Glentaisie), and indeed generations of my dogs have greeted these stones as if they were old friends - which can be a bit unsettling to watch when walking at night but the vibe has always been friendly. One of these stones sits in the hedgerow beside my house, looking like a big fallen rock about the size of a small car, its unassuming but if you crawled through the hawthorn you'd see some knotwork carved on the back - its documented in some local historical books. Here's where I get to the point - during the 2020 lockdown it disappeared overnight! No mystery though - there were scuffs in the road, deep tyre marks and broken branches - someone took it as a garden feature! The earth underneath was fresh and some copper looking metal and a bead or two were visible which I quickly covered over (seemed like the right thing to do). The sheer mechanical effort to move it must have taken some serious equipment. What can I do to make this right?, the vibe is still friendly to me, the dogs were upset and went looking, there's a feeling of loss in the air for sure. Does someone now have a confused chieftain wandering amongst their laurels??!

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Blimey, that's some story and what a tragedy someone stole the stone! OK, if it were me or my husband, and the energy there was still accepting of visitors ... I would take votive offerings. I leave flowers usually, they can return to the earth, a libation, a small drink of alcohol poured on the ground, Marc tends to leave small beads, thin bangles that sort of thing. And after leaving them in the place, buried, i would just sit and close my eyes in a meditative state, relax the mind. And I would apologise mentally for the damage and disrespect caused by some other person. I know how you feel, it beggars belief peoples' selfishness, and the feeling of wanting to perform some sort of reparation. To be honest I hope whoever took the stone does have an ancient chieftain or warrior roaming around... they might learn some respect and not to steal a country's heritage!

[@californiaredd8646]

makes me want to cry. Irland is a special place of GOD!! leave it alone. I LOVE FAIRIES SINCE THE 60s!!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

There are 30K to 40K in Ireland? Wow. FWIW: If I EVER make it to Ireland, I will be KAP'ing _at least_ one of them. KAP = Kite Aerial Photography. Or as I sometimes call it, _"Your Great Grandfather's Drone."_

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

I know!! we've never been to Ireland or Eire, but have friends there and honestly.... we totally need to go and record some content about the faeries there!!!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@@talesoffeyandfolk>>> Agreed...👍

[@out6of6my6mind]

I've got a few stories my mother told me that she either experienced or passed on from older relatives. One is from my grandad. He came home one night with a few friends. He lived in a cottage with his wife (my grandmother). It was a cold night, and one of his friends said he would light the fireplace to keep them warm. They all woke up the next morning and found that every single door in the house... the front door, the back door, every cupboard and drawer, was open. Not only that, but everything in those cupboards and drawers was outside the house in a big pile. The silverware, the blankets, the dishes, the towels, the cans of food... all in a heap in the front garden. It turns out there was a tree in their garden that my grandparents had been told never to interfere with. They knew to never prune it or mess with the leaves or the bark. But my grandfather's friend had been looking for wood for the fire and had broken off a few branches to burn. The next morning, my grandfather's friends had left, and after my grandparents had gathered and put away all of the items that had been taken outside... the knobs to every door, drawer and cupboard had been unscrewed and put inside the fireplace when they awoke. My grandmother then took some coins, a bottle of milk, and a wrapped up loaf of bread, and buried it right next to the tree. They never had any issues after that. Years later, after being told this story and not fully believing it, my aunt (about 10 years old at the time) went to the tree and dug up where she was told those things were buried. She only found the coins and felt satisfied that at least that part of the story was true... Very shortly afterward, my aunt started feeling sick. She ended up in hospital and was quarantined from her family. This was the early 60's but the doctors weren't sure what was wrong with her. She spent 3 years in a hospital bed, hardly able to move. She learnt how to knit while quarantined, but her parents were devastated, thinking that their daughter might die... Eventually, my aunt told them what she did, and told them she had put the coins under a floorboard by her dresser. My grandmother found the coins and insisted that my aunt cut her hair. My grandmother then took the coins, the hair, a jar of honey, and some silverware, and buried it in the same place under the tree. As my aunt's hair started to grow back, she started to feel better. Once her hair had grown the 6 inches that had been cut off, the doctors deemed her perfectly well and she was allowed to go home. She spent years in a hospital bed and had lost almost half of her body weight, but was given a clean bill of health and is still alive and healthy today. She's the one that owns that cottage now, and even though there have been extensions built onto the cottage, and even though the garden is all done up with flowers, all her children and grandchildren know not to mess with that tree at the edge of the garden.

[@out6of6my6mind]

That's one of the many stories I've heard anyway. I live a few miles up from Bray in Dublin but it doesn't take a lot of effort to travel outside the city and still find remnants of magic and the old world.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Exactly we have to get away from the noise of cities and reduce the noise within ourselves, There is something to be said for a more simple life. We really need to visit Ireland. :)

[@payingtheferryman]

I just came back from the forest. I left an offering for Oberon, the king of the fae folk. He accepted my offering but couldn't come to meet me at that time understandably. These beings are most certainly real and should be respected.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Definitely. I completely believe with all my heart :)

[@SAT0R1.]

10/10

[@lightningspirit2166]

I experienced a timeslip at a long barrow grave in the burren co clare....it was weird ...!

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

oh wonderful.... magic when least expected always leaves me in awe :)

[@susanscheuermann4898]

I Lovvvve Your Faire/Fairie Tales Of Ireland !!!!! Very Wonderful and Interesting !!!!! 🏵🏵🏵🏵🏵🏵🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆

[@erikcarmichael3300]

Scotland is as well ever heard story of Tam Lin or better yet Thomas the Rhymer

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

LOVE both of those. I worked on a small independent film of Tam Lin years ago, but it never left post production sadly. Hopefully one day though it will be finished in editing :)

[@abyssstrider2547]

Fairies are also a part of Balkan lore. In my country there are stories of them being sighted, and there are also stories of people encountering odd elderly men dressed in colorful robes requesting for specific items they have in the house. Usually food or drinks, and if they are refused. Misfortune may befall those who didn't want to please them, but those who do are often rewarder with good fortune they are called the Good Ones here in Bosnia, similar to the stories of Dagda in Ireland. Fairies come in 4 subspecies: Mountain fairy, Fairy Queen, Red Fairy and there was another one but i forgot the name of it. I definitely saw one on a crossroad near my house when i was parking my car. It flew right above my car as soon as i made direct eye contact with it, seemed almost as if it was surprised that i could see it, it looked like it was dressed in a dress made of flower petals, yellow and orange, and had dragonfly wings. Although when i got out of the car a bat did randomly appear and it followed me to the house. I remained outside, drinking a can i bought watching it. This was during twilight and it was definitely interested in me, flying pretty close to me and then flying away. I know that fairies are changelings so the fairy may have taken up that shape to observe me and to figure out why i was able to perceive her.

[@carmaela2689]

I live in the US in southwestern PA. We have tons of earthen mounds. They are attributed to the fort ancient culture. These "Indian mounds" are all over the area and i to West Virginia and down in the southern US. Growing up, I had lots of incidences with fairies. I could see them and communicate with them. They aren't Tinker Bell, that's for sure! My theory is that these mounds are much older than believed. I think that yes, ancient humans may have used them, but they already existed when they arrived. I believe this about the Great Pyramids of Giza too. I think these mounds and pyramids are all left over from a previous world....maybe pre-great flood.

[@Christian-fy5dz]

Have you read passport to magonia?

[@robertonunesoliveira]

😍😍🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩

[@CharoletteWade-mg3qq]

I believe in Faeries as all others that means Elfs i am a witch my bloid line comes from Ireland

[@debrapaulino918]

People dismiss it as mythology. Most have never had any kind of paranormal experiance so that is their reference.

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

Absolutely agree :)

[@sexual-harassment-panda]

I've had many experiences with mischievous fairies

[@danielosullivan3110]

All four of my grandparents were born in the 1800. All moved to the USA around 1916. They all talked about fairies ☘️🥃🚬

[@melissa0386]

I would not touch it if I gave me the land it’s on really it’s a big no no here in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@debrapaulino918]

Should we think there is a possible connection with unexplained violence?

[@talesoffeyandfolk]

I don't know.... I think it is a very complicated issue with a long long legacy and history. Maybe the energy of some places is more raw? I just don't know

[@debrapaulino918]

@@talesoffeyandfolk Yes.

[@sweetbottumz7705]

No. Foolhearty .

[@markmaier1846]

fairies wear Boots!

[@catherinedonohue2662]

Between Cork and Limerick their is afew towns with names beginning with Rath, same in an area in Dublin. All in a lae line. So it may be afew raths are in these places.