Fairy thorn trees

[jigsaw 11,875]

ratreeper I just hope for your sake the little folk havent got the internet and are reading this cause they'll curse you,and then you'll believe

[kenny14 656]

I heard people discussing this on the radio not too long ago. It is unbelievable how much they believed it, one guy who wrote the book about it was saying that fairies had attacked him and loads of other nonsense. Why do fairies only live in a few bushes in Ireland I wonder? Don't people notice this stuff is all based on hoaxes, like the myth of sex being better with love...bollocks.

 

That means when you're having sex with someone else, not masturbating you fool!! :laugh:

[PeakOil 352]

I liberated a couple of forks from one for rod rests at Enniskillen one day. Didn't catch anything mind.

[MoChara 1,632]

I liberated a couple of forks from one for rod rests at Enniskillen one day. Didn't catch anything mind.

where you fishing lough erne? Or one of the smaller lakes?

[jigsaw 11,875]

I fished lower lough erne one summer,went out a long way and had a few fish,but without warning the wind picked up and the lake became very choppy.We got battered all over the shop,frightened the shite out of me.We were back home a week later and a german family drowned up there in nearly the very same spot.It was scary thinking about it.The town we were visiting was called GARRISON,you know it MC?

[BOLIO1 1,078]

I know it Jiggy....but back to the Fairy trees! During the early 's Templeking, wee Josey and myself were searching for some ground that Josey had been told had been full of hares some years previously. We followed directions and eventually wound up in the general area......this was long before satnav you understand. I bounced out of Joseys motor to ask an old guy on a tractor if he would mind us taking the dogs for a tramp across the land for a run at a hare. He told me that until about 5 years previously there had been a lot of hares on the land but shortly after treating the fields with ....i think he said it was Gramoxin?...there were dead and dying hares lying all over the land, but we were welcome to explore away so long as we didn't disturb the fairy fort on the second field behind his farmhouse. I thought he was joking so I asked him did he really believe in fairies. He assured me that they were real and related the story about an old house that had lain vacant since the death of its owner many years before. This old guy had decided to make use of the copper boiler that had been left in the house and hoiked it out during the night, only to be followed home and given a black eye by the fairy. So he took it back the very next night to assuage the anger of the little folk.

Now I don't believe in fairies but I do believe that HE did, and I'm sure Templeking will confirm that we enjoyed many a hunt on the "Fairy man's" land for the past 28 years or so.

[BOLIO1 1,078]

Just to show we also used collie lurchers way back.....here is one of mine on the "Fairy man's" land

 

Edited May 30, 2012 by BOLIO1

[SeanMcD 92]

I know it Jiggy....but back to the Fairy trees! During the early 's Templeking, wee Josey and myself were searching for some ground that Josey had been told had been full of hares some years previously. We followed directions and eventually wound up in the general area......this was long before satnav you understand. I bounced out of Joseys motor to ask an old guy on a tractor if he would mind us taking the dogs for a tramp across the land for a run at a hare. He told me that until about 5 years previously there had been a lot of hares on the land but shortly after treating the fields with ....i think he said it was Gramoxin?...there were dead and dying hares lying all over the land, but we were welcome to explore away so long as we didn't disturb the fairy fort on the second field behind his farmhouse. I thought he was joking so I asked him did he really believe in fairies. He assured me that they were real and related the story about an old house that had lain vacant since the death of its owner many years before. This old guy had decided to make use of the copper boiler that had been left in the house and hoiked it out during the night, only to be followed home and given a black eye by the fairy. So he took it back the very next night to assuage the anger of the little folk.

Now I don't believe in fairies but I do believe that HE did, and I'm sure Templeking will confirm that we enjoyed many a hunt on the "Fairy man's" land for the past 28 years or so.

well D if youv retired an old josey is passed it youv had near 30 years hunting out of that spot.......................................im asking wee josey were it is

[tinytiger 840]

i did mention this in an earlier post,my mate wouldnt touch the forts these trees grew in and refused to walk inside one.I am living proof its true cause im dogged with shit luck for the last 20 years,lol.Ask Maltenby he'll tell ye

 

At least your still breathing-2 forts were bulldozed a mile up the road from me-5 of the family died within the year(2 swept away while fishing,1 hit and run driver ,and the other 2 of cancer)- i know we supposedly live in un superstitious times ,but noone would go near the farm when it was for sale and it went very cheap-about 20 years ago or so.

[SeanMcD 92]

i did mention this in an earlier post,my mate wouldnt touch the forts these trees grew in and refused to walk inside one.I am living proof its true cause im dogged with shit luck for the last 20 years,lol.Ask Maltenby he'll tell ye

 

At least your still breathing-2 forts were bulldozed a mile up the road from me-5 of the family died within the year(2 swept away while fishing,1 hit and run driver ,and the other 2 of cancer)- i know we supposedly live in un superstitious times ,but noone would go near the farm when it was for sale and it went very cheap-about 20 years ago or so.

fcuk sounds like a handy way to get a cheap farm

[killbilly 17]

Funny how the country has gone to sh*te since they built that new motorway through Tara and all its ancient remains!!

[MoChara 1,632]

I fished lower lough erne one summer,went out a long way and had a few fish,but without warning the wind picked up and the lake became very choppy.We got battered all over the shop,frightened the shite out of me.We were back home a week later and a german family drowned up there in nearly the very same spot.It was scary thinking about it.The town we were visiting was called GARRISON,you know it MC?

yea jigsaw know it well, very dangerous lough, you would never see me on melvin in a boat lol. The way the landscape is around it makes it look beautiful, but go on it in the wrong place at the wrong time, it will swallow you up.

[PeakOil 352]

I liberated a couple of forks from one for rod rests at Enniskillen one day. Didn't catch anything mind.

where you fishing lough erne? Or one of the smaller lakes?

 

I was fishing on the lough.

[jigsaw 11,875]

I fished lower lough erne one summer,went out a long way and had a few fish,but without warning the wind picked up and the lake became very choppy.We got battered all over the shop,frightened the shite out of me.We were back home a week later and a german family drowned up there in nearly the very same spot.It was scary thinking about it.The town we were visiting was called GARRISON,you know it MC?

yea jigsaw know it well, very dangerous lough, you would never see me on melvin in a boat lol. The way the landscape is around it makes it look beautiful, but go on it in the wrong place at the wrong time, it will swallow you up.

the best bit was I never had a boat with an engine before that day nor since,and never will again,lol.my kids were screaming for me to turn the boat back(which I did without a second thought).to top the day off the youngest kid climbed a frame in the green in Garrison,the kiddies playground and smashed his teeth and lips,blood everywhere.Oh lordy what a holiday.Was stoped by the british army another day in Omagh as I got lost and passed the same junction 3 times trying to find the road for Ballyshannon,they quized us for 10 minutes and told us to Furk off and not come back through that area again.On another trip we ended in a town called mountjoy,the locals were very VERY hostile towards us,Great holiday though,lol.

[MoChara 1,632]

I fished lower lough erne one summer,went out a long way and had a few fish,but without warning the wind picked up and the lake became very choppy.We got battered all over the shop,frightened the shite out of me.We were back home a week later and a german family drowned up there in nearly the very same spot.It was scary thinking about it.The town we were visiting was called GARRISON,you know it MC?

yea jigsaw know it well, very dangerous lough, you would never see me on melvin in a boat lol. The way the landscape is around it makes it look beautiful, but go on it in the wrong place at the wrong time, it will swallow you up.

the best bit was I never had a boat with an engine before that day nor since,and never will again,lol.my kids were screaming for me to turn the boat back(which I did without a second thought).to top the day off the youngest kid climbed a frame in the green in Garrison,the kiddies playground and smashed his teeth and lips,blood everywhere.Oh lordy what a holiday.Was stoped by the british army another day in Omagh as I got lost and passed the same junction 3 times trying to find the road for Ballyshannon,they quized us for 10 minutes and told us to Furk off and not come back through that area again.On another trip we ended in a town called mountjoy,the locals were very VERY hostile towards us,Great holiday though,lol.

Sounds like a brilliant holiday jig