School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 034
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- (continued from previous page)fishing on the lake was drowned, so that the mermaid is supposed to come ashore when any person named Glynn is going to be drowned.
- There are very few stories told in my district about leipreachans or mermaids. No one has ever seen one but from what they have read in books. They say that a leipreachan is a little dwarf about the size of a man's fist. He is usually a cobbler and anyone who is lucky enough to find him will get him sitting under a plant or mushroom working away at his boots. He is supposed to have a purse of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Tearmann, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Leithcheathrú, Co. Shligigh
