School: Cluain Fhada (B.) (roll number 15557)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Fathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0248, Page 258
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- There was leipreachán near Flemmings old house.
One night John Fleming's father was going stealing a bag of turf. As he was coming with the bag of turf the leipreachán met him. The man had the dog with him and he started fighting with the leipreacháh.
The dog would not let him near the man. When they got to the house himself and the dog went in and the leipreachán stayed outside. When the man went out to milk the cow the leipreachán followed him.
There was a loft over the cows and the leipreachán went up in it and started playing a fiddle. The man went in for a shovel full of coals and he threw them up in the loft to the leipreachán. The leipreachán haunted him ever after that until he died.
- Collector
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
