School: Bloomfield (roll number 10382)
- Location:
- Lavally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 188
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- One evening a certain woman was going milking the cows. As she was going through some of the fields she saw a lepreachan and caught him. One of the cows used kick when been milked and the woman had a small rope called a spanchel which she used tie on her feet to keep her from kicking.
She asked the lepreachan for gold. The fairy pointed to a "buachallán" which was nearby. The woman tied the spanchel on the "buachallán" and went home for a spade. When she returned she found a spachel tied on every buachallán in the field, and the woman could not find out what buachallán the gold was under.My father told me this story.
- Collector
- Nora Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Sligo
