fairy barrow

English

Noun

fairy barrow (plural fairy barrows)

  1. Synonym of fairy hill
    • 1968, Ramona Stewart, Casey, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 321:
      Now the grandchildren had been dumped on Restell, looking like changelings from a fairy barrow.
    • 1993, David Fuller Cook and Carl Sargent, For Faerie, Queen and Country, T S R, Incorporated, page 81:
      Today, with the need for castles long past, the pechs are seldom seen. It seems most have withdrawn to their fairy barrows.
    • 2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites, Somerset: Gothic Image Publications, page 32:
      [He] confessed that he often visited fairy barrows and met with white, green and black fairies.
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