fairy barrow

plural fairy barrows

1. Synonym of fairy hill

   Now the grandchildren had been dumped on Restell, looking like changelings from a fairy barrow.

   1968, Ramona Stewart, Casey, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 321

   2 more examples

   Today, with the need for castles long past, the pechs are seldom seen. It seems most have withdrawn to their fairy barrows.

   1993, David Fuller Cook and Carl Sargent, For Faerie, Queen and Country, T S R, Incorporated, page 81

   [He] confessed that he often visited fairy barrows and met with white, green and black fairies.

   2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites, Somerset: Gothic Image Publications, page 32

   Synonyms: fairy hill