“The Secret Fairy Glen”

Prior to venturing out to find this hidden glen, I was told that it was created and protected by the Fairies and that it could only be found/entered if these Fairies seen honest goodness in your soul. Only then would they make their magically cloaked entrance visible! So off I set to be judged I actually passed the entrance twice before even realising it as the entrance is basically a hole in a hedge with a lot of foliage blanketing it extremely well from passers.

Once entered, a long narrow green mosey path unwinds and guides you downwards into this the deep chasm. It’s honestly like entering a walkway to another world! This glen is carved deep into limestone rock for almost a mile in length. There are many specimens of trees & ferns growing here, which look like they belong more in a tropical rainforest than in Ireland. Vines drape from the tree canopy above right down to the valley floor and fresh rain water treacle’s down the uniformed walls on each end which are 50ft in height along the entire length of the glen.

This glen/valley is footed on the sacred hill of Knocknarea where our ancient queen Maeve of Ireland is buried in a giant cairn on top. There is archaeological evidence that proves our ancestors carved rock from this glen thousands of years ago to use as Dolmen tombs across Sligo. History also states that they may have used this valley for ceremonial and ritual practices. The very strange thing is that when I investigated closely there are areas of these walls that do look like they may indeed have been hand carved

It got me wondering… did our ancient Irish ancestors hand carve this entire valley into the rock just like the ancient Egyptians done so leading into their main pyramids or even the ancient Mayans jungle temples of Mexico? This may not be a theory to dismiss because geologists are still not 100% certain on how this glen was created? The closest explanation to date is that it was a small fault line or glacier crack, however it’s hard to imagine nature creating something so symmetrical and uniformed for almost one mile.

I personally prefer the myth that it was created by our Fairies and sure there’s no harm nor shame in believing this, even as an adult…..