A gancanagh (/ɡænˈkænə/) (from Irish gean cánach 'love talker')[1] is a male fairy from the mythology of Northern Ireland, known for seducing women.
[1] In a story collected in The Dublin and London Magazine in 1825, ganconer is defined as "a name given to the fairies, alias the 'good people,' in the North of Ireland."
[4] In another story in the same magazine, a group of ganconers plays hurling, and carries off a widow’s cow to a fairyland beneath the lake of Loughleagh.
[7] Captain Dearg and an army of ganconers appeared in the poetry of John O’Hanlon as fairy soldiers who ride through the air.
[8] Irish poet Ethna Carbery characterized the “Love-Talker” as a handsome incubus-like fairy with black eyes.