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A native Irish tree, also known as Sgeach gial, with thorny branches and white flowers, used historically for hedging.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

Also, the fairies use lone white thorn trees or fairy trees as a gateway to their world.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

A lone white thorn tree has great power.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

Long before electric fences and pigtail posts, our ancestors created stock-proof field boundaries from white thorn.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

Also called hawthorn the species makes up about three quarters of Irish hedgerows.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

Sgeach gial or bright thorn bush in Irish.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

Shrews and mice sometimes break cover from under the white thorn, much to the cat's amusement.

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Blinded by Whitethorn in Cork

Our house is surrounded by these native trees and from the kitchen window I see and hear blackbirds, finches and thrushes as they dart in and out of the protective thorny habitat.