Look for the Leprechaun

Located in a 'hide' in a fairy ring, in a remote part of County Tipperary, Ireland, we have an array of camera equipment set to 'spy' on the 'little people'. The area has a reputation for supernatural beings of all types. Leprechaun, sheerie and pooka are all regarded as being particularly active in the spring, so the 'watch' live from dawn (Irish time) on 16 March 2000 for 3 days.

The fairy ring is a pre-historic earthwork enclosure some 120 feet (40m) in diameter, with an average height of 9ft (3m). Set in the Glen of Cloongallon, in the townland of Ballyseanrath near Thurles in County Tipperary. Tree spirits are said to protect the trees around the ring, and the dolmen, a group of six large standing stones in the centre of the ring give an otherworldly sense to the landscape. The unusual confluence of enchanted glen, fairy ring, sacred stones and magical tree gives the organisers of the watch a high degree of confidence that sightings will happen.

The camera is concealed in a cavity in the trunk of an ancient oak, a branch supporting the antenna! (We trust that the ancients are not too familiar with cutting edge technology)

As operators of the Great Irish Ghostwatch, a year-round quest for a phantom in a haunted former Irish linen mill in downtown Belfast, Irelandseye are world-experts in this form of web-cam. Two million surfers have witnessed the scene. Hundreds of positive sightings have been reported.