School: Summerville (roll number 622)
- Location:
- Summerville, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: John Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0652, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)or sometimes mending them. I do not know have he any other occupation. There are no stories about the lepricaun in my townland. There are no stories of people who endeavoured to take his gold. I do not know are leipricauns friendly beings. I do not know did they revenge people who interfered with him.
Mermaids were not ever caught in this district.
- There is an old ruined church in the townland of Kilmacleague. It is inside the clay cliff of the Back-Strand. There is a tradition about it. There is a stone inside the door with a hollow in the middle of it. This was for the holy water. The hottest day in summer this hollow is always damp. No one remembers(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Quann
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshoneen, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr J. O' Regan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Ballyshoneen, Co. Waterford
