In Ireland two distinct faery types exist, the trooping faeries and the solitary fairies . The trooping fairies can be found in merry bans about the hawthorn tree or at feasts in gilded fairy palaces. They delight in company, while the solitary fairies avoid large gatherings, preferring to be left by themselves and separate from one another.
Fairies exist all over the world.
In a group they are the ' daione sidhe ' or fairy people. They love milk and honey and drink flower necter as their fairy wine. They have the power to affect human life, especially unbaptized children. Leprechaun Irish fairy. Treasure hunters can often track down a leprechaun by the sound of his shoemaker's hammer.