IRISH  SOCIABLE TROOPING FAERIES

Social or Trooping fairies, as the name implies travel and live in groups. There are the ones often found near or on a Hawthorne tree as they are sacred to the fae. They also can be found in or around a circle of stones or bushes.

The trooping faeries delight in company and festivities. They love to gather for feasts or in gilded fairy palaces.

They can be large or small, friendly or sinister. They tend to wear green jackets and love hunting and riding. The smaller ones make fairy rings with their circular dances. The Trooping fairies traveled in close knit groups and were very likely to go raiding and steal things from people. Like troopers or little soldiers marching in a procession, they'd troop off with anything of value and loved to go raiding.

The Tuatha de Danann who lived in the sidh, ruled by a king, and sometimes a queen (or both), can be considered as the social fairies. They were often seen feasting, singing and dancing. They can be either benevolent or hostile to humans.