Fermanagh Folk Tales

Fermanagh Folk Tales brings together stories rooted in the county’s landscape, communities and storytelling traditions. Its material ranges from tales of the Shining Folk beneath Lough Erne and fairies who discipline the unruly wee Meg Barnileg to reported hauntings involving the Cooneen poltergeist and Belleek Pottery.

Alongside these supernatural accounts are local ‘pants’, or tall tales, shaped by humour and exaggeration. They include ‘educated’ Irish pigs said to understand three languages, talking horses and a pike that lures squirrels into the River Sillees. The collection also reflects how stories can travel, with one Fermanagh tale linked to traditions heard among Irish-descended communities in the Carolinas.