Our Story

We're Maitiu and Sophie, and we live at Graylodge — a five-acre smallholding high in the Roughty Valley, County Kerry, with a 600-acre forest at our back and mountains in every direction. We're completely off-grid here: mountain well water, solar power, and a workshop where we make faerie houses by hand.

We've been slowly rewilding this land for years — planting, building ponds, creating habitats — and the wildlife has responded in kind. Deer appear most mornings. Birds fill the garden. And somewhere on the five acres, if you look carefully, you'll find faerie doors tucked into trees, stone houses perched on rocks, and a troll half-submerged in the hillside who has been there, by the look of him, since the mountains formed.

The faerie houses are made together — gathering stones from Mangerton Mountain, cutting reclaimed Kerry slate for the roofs, building each one by hand in the workshop. No two are ever the same. We're assisted throughout by three cocker spaniels — Sammy, Molly and Nelly — who consider themselves expert faerie finders and take quality control very seriously. We consider their judgement final.

Every house leaves the mountain carrying a piece of Ireland with it.

just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not there...