School: Carrowmore (roll number 1214)
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 405
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- One morning a little boy was out early herding sheep on the slopes of Knocknashee, because it was lambing season. He spied a little leipreachán sitting under a white thorn bush sewing a shoe. The little boy crept over to where the fairy was sitting and caught him by the neck.He asked the fairy where would he get a crock of gold but the little fairy would not tell the boy. The young lad said he would kill the fairy and it gave in. The leipreachan said that the crock of gold was hidden under a bush yonder. The foolish boy looked in the direction of the bush and as soon as he took his eyes off the fairy the latter disappeared. The boy was vexed for having let the fairy trick him and went home as poor as ever.
- Collector
- Eileen Johnson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntawy, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Denis Gormally
- Gender
- Male
