School: Lacken and Leny (roll number 3244)

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1. The Leprechaun (continued)

   

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   the following story. Her husband Michael Kerrigan was walking through Clonave bog when he saw a Leipreachan sitting under a bush and he was mending a very small pair of shoes. He was a little bigger than a man's fist. When Michael Kerrigan saw him he made his way towards him intending to catch him and get the gold, but unluckily he tripped over a stick and fell, and when he got up the Leipreachan was gone.

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2. The Leprechaun

   

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   Joe Carolan, Ballinalack, Rathowen, Co. Westmeath aged about 60 told this story. There is a Leipreachan in Clonave bog and he was seen by a man named Tom Cox. He was going home from Multyfarnham and he had to cross Clonave bog. While he was going through a wood in the bog he saw a Leipreachan sitting under a mushroom and he was working away making a shoe and he had a red three cornered hat. He was only the size of a man's fist. Tom Cox tried to catch him but he disappeared.

   

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3. The Leprechaun

   

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   James Mac Cornack, Bunbrusna, Co. Westmeath aged about 40 told this story.
   There is a Leipreachan in Harry O'Neill's

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