While according to the earliest authorities this mythical land of perennial delight was located beyond the Western sea, in other and later legends, belief in which prevails to this day in some parts of Kerry, we find the dwelling place of the Immortals removed to the ‘fairy mound’ in which the Sidhe (Shee), the ‘people of the hill,’ live in subterranean palaces, into which mortals have occasionally been known to penetrate, and in which they have found wonderful treasures of gold and silver, and held strange converse with cats and greyhounds which according to tradition possessed, like all animals before the introduction of Christianity, faculties of speech and reason. Edith Gordon ‘Some Kerry Fairies’ Kerry Archaeological Magazine 6 (1911), 347-356 at 348