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Irish website ready for American Leprechaun watchers
Press information and report of sightings March 2006 The Leprechaun Watch was set up by irelandseye.com with the assistance of the Computer Science Department at its local University. It has been a great hit with net surfers world wide, it even features in a French schoolbook. However, the traffic jumps one hundredfold on 17th March, the day everyone loves to be Irish, especially Americans. Irelandseye.com has installed a webcam, in a 'hide' near a fairy ring in a remote part of County Tipperary, Ireland and connected to the Internet via a cell phone. The area was chosen because of its reputation as a haunt for leprechauns, sheeries, pookas and other Irish fairies. Tradition has it that the fairies are particularly lively in the springtime. The fairy ring is a pre-historic earthwork circle some 500 feet (170m) in diameter, with an average height of 10ft (3m). It is located in the Glen of Cloongallon, in the townland of Ballyseanrath not far from the town of Thurles in County Tipperary. The arena is surrounded by hawthorn, ash and blackthorn hedges along with early flowering gorse. The trees ranged around the perimeter are mainly chestnut, with one magnificent oak tree. It is thought to be over 600 years old with a magical reputation perhaps from its providing leprechauns with acorns for their pipes. It is believed that a skeaghshee or tree spirit, which saved it from the axe in Tudor times, protects the tree. At that time most of the oaks in Ireland were felled to build Men O'War for Henry VIII's navy. The tree has been pressed into modern day service - the camera is concealed in a cavity in its trunk, and a branch supports an antenna! A dolmen, a group of six large standing stones topped by an even larger capstone, commands the interior of the ring. Murphy commented ‘this is the ideal place for Leprechaun watching. If you don’t see a Leprechaun in an enchanted glen beside a fairy ring containing sacred stones and a magical tree then you have little chance elsewhere.’ If Murphy were to base his belief on the sightings reported in the last few days, it may not be misplaced (see below):
CONTACTS: John Murphy (Editor), email him at appletree.ie, his address is murphyj Reported sightingsHere are some of the reports of sightings received in March 2006. I saw something small walking through the forest! there was a flicker of something brown with flitting wings I keep see little orbs like lights roaming around the camera i saw the vague image of a leprchaun he was holding two sacks. he sat on a brown log and just stared at me. he satared for almost 10 minutes and then realized that I (or the camera) was watching so he ran. he must have been fast because the screen gave the effect of him being fast by making everything all blurry. he looked like a picture from a story book. I see a vague outline of a person. Maybe a leprechaun. It's wearing green and is holding something. I can't tell what though. It looks like it's walking away. next to it i see a vague outline of what seems to be a green hat. this was between 9:45 and 9:49 i sall him right there IT WAS FREAKY!!!!!!!!!! There was a little leprechaun in the middle of he screen playing a flute! It so cool!!!!! I have seen a strange shadow moving. It has been very fast ! I think, it was a Leprechauns ! I\'m so happy !! In the little wee corner In the bottom-right hand corner we saw something that looked like a little man winking right at the camera. He knows he's being watched! Wow that was wild the whole picture was lite up with pirple and blue lights and when it refreashed they were all gone, also @about 6:22 there was a little face and it was moving like it was talking or something Me and my dad were sat on the sofa and we were just watching recess on television and my dad said whats that stood there so we refreshed the page and it was still there it has been there for 10 minutes now I see a smiling face on the left and what appears to be a reddish bowl/pot on the right. Bless them for sharing their world with us. You may not believe me I saw somthing sitting there and then as soon as I saw it, it was gone. My freind saw it as well. I saw a small figure his apparel was seen easily, the unknown figure was wearing a pointed cap red in colour, a white undershirt and a green vest with green shoes and either brown or olive colour breeches, carrying a cane or something in one hand and a skin pouch filled with some kind of liquid his hair was red or black, quite astonishing really. I see a face down near the rocks. It looks like its peering from behind them. and its grinning. i dont see a tree but i see a rock wall with a bush near it i saw this at 12:22 p.m. im not sure wat it is but just telling ya i saw wat looked like a blue creature wearing a hat on the wall It was INSANE! okay so there was a fairy right? and it went right by me! I could feel the wind when it went by! that's how close it was! His little legs were going like there was no tomorrow! i saw a wee leprechaun jumping up and down on his head in the bottom left section of the grass. he was having lots of fun fun fun ! ! ! I saw a pixie type creature wearing what looked like a red and black Bohs scarf. Little Blue Leprechaun sitting on a stone. There is also a tall spirit with a very clear face standing behind the stones. directly below him, in front of the stones, I can see another face but it is not as clear as the leprechaun or the spirit behind the stones. It is 11:01 pm Tipperary time. we saw a little man sat down with his arms out straight At the bottom of the picture I see a face with a hat on it. I saw what looked to be a face peaking out of the rocks...when i refreshed the wecam the image had moved.it looked like a fairy!! We think we saw two shadows of two men. When the image "refreshed" the shadows (outlines) were gone. It was really a fairy or some type of motion. I see his hat. He has a round stomach. I saw it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw them with my own eyes, Man. It looked like a leprchaun head There were two little fat leprechhauns. It looked like they were talking. Cool!!!!!! I would like to know where the light is coming from. I was here when it was daylight, and I didn't catch anything that would cause the light. If is a passing car, then why doesn't it move.. Could it be just something relfecting off the camera? It doesn't move or go away.. So it has to be something stationary causeing the light. It was so cool!! My brother said he saw a little man next to the tree, just standing there. Well I hope I see one soon, I come here alot, but I have never seen a leprechaun or a ghost. I have sent a former sighting to this web-site, which was reporting the sighting of the green shoe with a curled toe, and now I see a leg coming out of the shoe. There appears to be a small path leading into the tree right in front of the screen; could the leprechauns be living/hiding in the tree?;-D I'm a fairy believer myself. I've always been since a child. And because of my belief and gifts to the fairies I've seen them. Here I've seen 3 very vivid Leprechuans and a fiew more but not as vivid. it is 12:41 over there and i see a little light in d2. i think it is a leprican because i have gotten on this web-site befor around this time and have never seen that befor I saw a light!!! well I cant really see anything cause it's day time over there during the middle of the night here but i'll keep looking
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