School: Lisín na hEilte (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Lisheennaheltia, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Choisdealbha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 076
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- When there are lights in the bogs it is Jack with the Lantern that is in it.
There is a man who has pots of gold with him. He is called the Gréasai Leprachan. There was one a man that saw the Gréasai Leprachan and caught him and asked him a pot of gold and he said he had no pots of gold but look at my wife behind you she has the pots of gold. The man looked behind him and he did not see any one behind him and when he looked back again the Gréasai Leprachan was gone and the next day he saw him sitting under a tree. He went near him and the Gréasai Leprachan said to him, "O look at the dog behind you mind would he bite you and the man looked behind him and the dog was not in it. He turned back again and he was gone
- Collector
- Bridie Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Cloonkeen, Co. Galway
