Glenlea is a Faerie Thorpe in the Kingdom of Ulster in Ireland.
Overview[]
Not far from Glencolumbkille, though it won’t be found on any map, lies the faerie Thorpe of Glenlea, a small enchanted village entirely inhabited by Kithain and a few enchanted mortals lucky (or unlucky) enough to fall in with one of the villagers and receive an invitation to “leave the cares of the world behind.”
The town itself consists of a main street lined with shops and thatched houses with a few side lanes leading to other dwellings. It includes a smithy run by a troll smith named Hogan, a bake-shop presided over by the elderly boggan Mother Cobbins, and other centers for local Kithain artisans and artists. Although not permanent residents, members of nearby selkie freeholds sometimes come inland as far as Glenlea to enjoy the company of their landbound cousins. Although the town appears only as a collection of dilapidated, abandoned huts, its reputation among Hibernia’s Kithain (particularly the commoners) makes it possible for changelings who know what to look for to locate the turn in the road that leads to Glenlea.
The thorpe’s prime watering hole the Flowing Cup, is a center for nighttime merrymaking. Many of the residents are proficient musicians and supply an endless round of jigs and reels for dancing and ballads for sing-alongs. The bartender brews his own faerie mead, a heady concoction also known as “Clurichaun’s Bane.”
References[]
- CTD: Immortal Eyes: Court of All Kings, p. 75.