School: Manulla (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bairéad
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 400
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- About fifty six years ago there lived a man named John McHale in Roslahan. HE had sheep graying in a field belonging to a man named Usbann and in this place there was a fort.
One evening he went to bring home his sheep when he saw Leipreacháin in the fort near where he was standing. He ran after him and caught him.
When he caught him he asked him for his gold. He said he would give it to him if he let him go. So he took a stone from the middle of the fort and gave the man the pot of gold.
The Leipreacháin told(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gavin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knockmore Eighter, Co. Mayo
