Fairy Tree at Grange Splits Stone
There is a fairy tree near the Grange Stone Circle has split on of the stone in two. The Grange stone circle in County Limerick is the largest in Ireland with 113 upright stones 150 feet in diameter. Many people don’t know that there is a smaller circle in the field next to the big one. And in that circle, the largest stone has a hawthorn tree growing out of it. The tree has split the stone in two and managed to thrive quite well.
Further out in the same field is a tall standing stone and the farmer says that there’s another standing stone behind that one several hundred meters, though it is not visible to the naked eye.
The tree growing out of the rock is said to be a fairy tree or a mystical tree associated with elemental beings (non-human spirits) of another realm or world…. kind of a parallel universe. There are many traditional folk tales about the fairies and how they don’t like being disturbed… and if disturbed will bring bad luck. Most Irish people will dismiss these tales as pure superstition, but at the same time, they won’t disturb them. There is a respect for the mystical.
People still come to this tree and circle and leave tokens of devotion. You can see the purple ribbon and sea shell on the stone in the photo above. The entire region around the Grange and Lough Gur has an amazingly high energy vibration. I’ve taken groups there who have lost all sense of time in that place.
The Fairy Tree near the Grange Stone Circle and the surrounding sites are featured on the Places of Resurrection tour, Images in the Landscape Tour and Western Edges Tour.
Hi Mindy,
I wanted to find you in Instagram but neither your name, or thin places tours is listed in a search. 🙁
Hi Julie. I’m on Instagram at @travelhag
Will “Thin Places Tours” of Grange Stone Circle and the Fairy Tree be available in April/May 2025? We plan on coming to Ireland then, and have a particular interest in the site.
Hi Sharon. I haven’t planned the 2025 schedule yet, but we visit the Grange every year so it is likely that it will be on one of two ireland tours. Thanks for reaching out. We hope to see you on a tour.
I am traveling to Ireland and Scotland in Sept 8th -22nd, 2018 and want to know if you have any 1 day tours available from Edinburgh or Dublin areas any thin places. Thank you, Trinette
I am traveling to Ireland and Scotland in Sept 8th -22nd, 2018 and want to know if you have any 1 day tours available from Edinburgh or Dublin areas any thin places. Thank you, Trinette I have requested this before but received no reply !
Hello, Trinette. We do prepackaged tours and tour itineraries, but we don’t provide one-day tours. I can recommend some tours to take from Dublin. There are several bus tours. I’m a big fan of Mary Gibbons Newgrange Tours. She goes everyday from Dublin and does Newgrange and The Hill of Tara. She’s an awesome historian and very entertaining. In Edinburgh there are so many possibilities. You could spend a whole week and not see it all. I love Holyrood Abbey and the grounds around it. The gardens are beautiful. The ghost tour is also wonderful – historical and fun. I hope you have a wonderful time.