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Clare field you cannot get out of?

  • 28-10-2011 9:48pm
    #1
    ANSI
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    I heard on radio about a field in Co Clare where it is said, if you go in there at night, you will not be able to get out of it until the following morning. Does anyone know where this is?


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  • #2
    babygirlz
    Registered Users Posts: 288 ✭✭babygirlz


    Lees Road ;)


  • #3
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    You misheard, her name is Clare Field.


  • #4
    badgerbaiter
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭badgerbaiter


    Ive found many fields like that..
    Particlarly when im out with Lucy ;)


  • #5
    wiger toods
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    legend also has it that once in the said field at night, if you say the 'Bull McCabe' 5 five times, he appears!


  • #6
    Clareboy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    You are probably talking about the folklore tradition of the ' stray sod'. It was said that if were crossing a field and you stood on this particular sod, you would become totally confused and not know where you were. To break the spell, you had to turn your coat inside out and by so doing, you confused the fairies into thinking that it was someone else that was in it.


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  • #7
    ANSI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭ANSI


    Clareboy wrote: »
    You are probably talking about the folklore tradition of the ' stray sod'. It was said that if were crossing a field and you stood on this particular sod, you would become totally confused and not know where you were. To break the spell, you had to turn your coat inside out and by so doing, you confused the fairies into thinking that it was someone else that was in it.
    no it was on radion and did not hear the interview itself but after the presenter said if we knew where the field is we could go

    How would you know if it was a stray sod? what is the difference between that and ordinary sod


  • #8
    Tubsandtiles
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    Who needs a Clare beers when we've got a field that has no exit, sounds like an exciting night :D


  • #9
    JustAddWater
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    It's not really a field, it just has less rocks in it then most places...


  • #10
    ANSI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭ANSI


    JustAddWater wrote: »
    It's not really a field, it just has less rocks in it then most places...
    where is it?


  • #11
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    On the After Hours Forum.


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  • #12
    ANSI
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    finbarrk wrote: »
    On the After Hours Forum.
    time wasters here it seems


  • #13
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    ANSI wrote: »
    time wasters here it seems

    Ah, not time wasters so much as people who might not actually believe in the fairies but don't want to be crossing them at the same time, just in case!
    Personally, I have a great respect for them and am frequently told I am away with them!

    On which radio station did you hear the programme and when etc.,? If it was fairly recently on an RTE station you might be able to get it again on podcast/playback. I don't think Newstalk does fairies but who knows? If it was Clare FM, then I'd say phone them up and ask them and they'd help you out. The author and storyteller Eddie Lenihan would certainly be a good source about locations. If you wrote to him at Eddie Lenihan, Crusheen, the letter would get to him.

    Happy Oíche Shamhna to you tonight! I am trying (and failing) to stay away from the stockpiled Haribos for the trick or treaters! The mini Smarties are done for already...


  • #14
    BnB
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    Eddie Lenihan would be your man for that kind of scutter.

    He's made a livin' out of dreamin up aul rubbish like that.


  • #15
    User Friendly
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    BnB wrote: »
    Eddie Lenihan would be your man for that kind of scutter.

    He's made a livin' out of dreamin up aul rubbish like that.
    :D:D


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