Introduction to the Leprechaun Watch

This Watch is an intense surveillance of a remote, picturesque area near Thurles in County Tipperary. (To view the location click here) A web camera has been set up in a majestic oak tree, which stands in a fairy ring. The oak is one of several trees which seem to guard a central dolmen. These ancient standing stones are in the middle of the fairy ring. Once worshipped by the pagan Irish, the stones are remnants of prehistoric Ireland.

Cute, colourful fairies may live in the minds of romantic film makers but in Ireland, the fairy race is respected more out of fear than love. The fairies are not to be crossed or angered, as they are swift to take revenge and will punish man, woman or child who offends them.

This Leprechaun Watch has been inspired by a request to investigate unusual events at a farm. A young, wealthy landowner who had read about the Ghostwatch contacted us in December 1999 and told us how he believed spiteful fairies were responsible for the misfortune and bad luck afflicting him.

We are not convinced that fairies are to blame but we certainly cannot explain what has been happening. His family and neighbours always believed that fairies were to blame but he only became persuaded when he could find no other explanation.