Other / Unknown · Hill of Tara, Leinster · 2017
IRE-2017ID case-e8d373224cFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- 2017to the year
- Where
- Hill of Tara, Leinsterto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a yellow or golden light appeared in the thickets near the Hill of Tara during a gathering, which only one lady claimed to see.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Hill of Tara, The Municipal District of Ashbourne, County Meath, Leinster, Éire / Ireland
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 2017
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-e8d373224c
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- In Ireland there are still Kings, Lords, and fookin [fairies]!
Reddit · 2017-09-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - In Ireland there are still Kings, Lords, and Fookin [Fairies]!
Reddit · 2025-11-14
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.