School: Tullycanna
- Location:
- Tulaigh Uí Chionaoith, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Tomás de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)was sitting on the stairs, he bent down to stroke and she flew at him and tore the throat out of him.
He is buried in Grange cemetry and the monument over him bears the inscription "here lies the body of Sir Walter Whitty and his cats."
Leprachauns are supposed to know where gold is buried also, near the village of Taghmon a farmer is said to have caught one and asked him where the gold was. He told him under the doorstep of his own house. He went home and it is said that he got a crock of gold but no one knows if it is the case or not.
- Collector
- Alice White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buaile Macs, Co. Loch Garman
