About This Site

Leprechauns UK was established in 1999 to address the lack of clear, accessible leprechaun information on the British internet. It is maintained by volunteers and receives no funding from the leprechaun industry.

History of this site

Leprechauns UK first appeared on 17 September 1999, on webspace provided by the founder's internet company, and moved to its own address, www.leprechauns.co.uk, the following year. The site was rebuilt by hand in 2003 after a redesign did not work out. It has been at leprechauns.uk since 2019. The old address is no longer ours; please update any old links or bookmarks. Changes to individual case files are recorded in each file's revision history.

Editorial policy

The archive documents accounts; it does not endorse interpretations. Sources are cited so that readers can check them. Where the archive's own view appears, it is confined to the editorial notes and marked as such. Witnesses are not ridiculed in these pages, whatever they saw.

Corrections

Errors are corrected in place, and material corrections are recorded in the relevant file's revision history. Corrections of fact are acted on with thanks. Corrections of classification are considered at the annual review.

Contact

The archive can be reached at archive (at) leprechauns (dot) uk — written that way to defeat the address-harvesting programs. Email is read in batches, a few times a year. Please do not resend a message because it has not been answered; it has been received. Selected letters are published in the correspondence archive, with permission or with identifying details removed.

Privacy

This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and collects no personal information. The visitor counter is a number we increment. It cannot identify individual visitors.

Technical

The site is hand-written HTML, as it was in 1999. The old table layout was retired in 2003, and the pages were rebuilt again in 2019 so that they work on telephones and with screen readers; they should look much as they did before. The site should work in any browser, including text-only browsers and the older machines in the back room of the library. If a page does not work in your browser, we would genuinely like to know; see the webmasters page.

Who maintains this site?

Volunteers. The founding webmaster retired from the day-to-day running of the site some years ago and remains its registrant. We do not publish the names of volunteers. This has been the practice since 1999 and we see no reason to change it.