School: Baile an Tobair, Baile an Londraigh (roll number 10314)
- Location:
- Ballintober, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Tuama
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)moat twelve times at twelve o'clock in the night the ground would open and you would go down to the faries.
- The Leipreachan lives in a moat or at the end of the rainbow He has very cocked toes He has a long nose He has a white breetches and a red coat and a big hat He is always mending shoes He sits under a mushrom He is about a foot in height He does be even caught has a crock of Gold If you could catch him you might [?] a crock of Gold He would tell you a certain tree in which there would be Gold hidden. If you away for and second he is gone he would try to trick you. If you walked around a ring in a certain place in a moat twelve times the ground would open up and you would go down to the fairies.
- Collector
- John Mullins
- Gender
- Male
