Piseógs — the ancient Irish practice of placing deliberate curses on a neighbour’s land — were once one of rural Ireland’s darkest secrets. Here’s what farmers feared finding at dawn.
Discover the Irish merrow legend — the sea creature from Irish folklore who lived between two worlds, loved human men, and always returned to the waves in the end.
Discover the stray sod — the enchanted Irish ground that could make any farmer lose their way in a field they’d walked a thousand times.
Discover the ancient Irish belief in fairy paths — invisible roads that shaped how cottages, lanes, and even modern motorways were built across Ireland.
Discover why lone hawthorn trees still stand in Irish fields, untouched for centuries — and why even modern road builders refuse to cut them down.
On a remote rock off Kerry’s coast, Irish monks built stone beehive huts 600 feet above the Atlantic and lived there for six centuries. Here is their extraordinary story.
Queen Maeve’s cairn on Knocknarea has stood for 5,500 years and never been opened. Discover the legend of Ireland’s greatest warrior queen.
Poll na bPéist on Inis Mór — the near-perfect rectangular pool the ancient Irish named the Hole of the Beast. Discover the legend behind its name.
Discover the Dearg Due — Ireland’s ancient vampire legend that predates Dracula. Find out why locals still pile stones on one Waterford grave every year.
Discover the mysterious portal tombs that dot the Irish landscape — ancient monuments older than the pyramids, still wrapped in legend today.