School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 147
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- Once upon a time a boy was turning in sheep out of a field into a farm. When he was going in he heard tapping like the ticking of a clock. He told his grandmother what he heard and she said it must be a Leipreachan making shoes. He went out next morning to the place where he heard the tapping. He looked under a heap of foxgloves and there was the Leipreachan. The boy asked him to show him a pot of gold. He led the boy to a ditch and he dug a hole in it. Inside in the hole was a pot flowing with gold. Before he pulled it out altogether he took out a box of snuff from his pocket and told the boy to take a pinch. The boy took it and the Leipreachan fired all the snuff up on the boy. When the boy got over the sneezing he said to himself "I have the gold anyhow" but when he looked at the pot all it contained was leaves.
- Collector
- Master D. Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garranejames, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Cronin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Garranejames, Co. Cork
