📖 Ancient Restoration

The Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary. Reputedly the site of the conversion of Aenghus the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century AD. #StPatricksDay ☘

The Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary. Reputedly the site of the conversion of Aenghus the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century AD. #StPatricksDay☘

Three Irish words used to describe fairy: Scál - An uncanny being, sometimes a god who passes on supernatural information. Airdrech - A battlefield spirit, an omen, a prophetic sign. Síabair - A spectral being who distorts & shape-shifts, takes on illusory…

In early Irish literature, the fairy/sídhe have many names: 'god-men' (fir dé), 'god-kindreds' (cenéla dé), & 'god-peoples' (tuatha dé).

Summit cairn on Sugarloaf Hill, Co Tipperary. In the distance is Slievenamon, mound of the god Midir, which is also crowned by a cairn.

The interference of the fairy-kind in worldly affairs is based on a desire to 'rekindle human glory' - They dwell on the heroic within man.

On the inside, the fairy-mound radiates a mysterious golden light; crystal chairs sparkle, & music plays for the sídhe lord & his retainers.

In mythology Síd-mounds are imagined as centres of fairy power & commerce, they have their own farmland & craftsmen, much like a ringfort.

Queen Maeve's Cairn, the enormous neolithic monument on the summit of Knocknarea mountain in County #Sligo.

The Cailleach is the Irish goddess of winter, the cold, wind and tempests. She was called "the old gloomy woman" or envisioned as a crane with sticks in her beak that forecast storms. Snow that fell in late spring was often attributed to her.

Gaoithe sídhe, or fairy wind, is a sudden wind gust or whirlwind thought to have been caused by the faeries.

The inhabitants of the Sídhe look like humans but are different. They are superior: immortal, more beautiful & possess supernatural powers.