School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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“Once upon a time there was a man digging in a field and it was for a farmer he was working.”
(continued from previous page)nor he did not care. He kept on working and when he rose up the flag from the ground what should come out but a leprechaun and a red cap on him. When he looked under the flag he got a crock of gold under it. He took a crock of gold and he took it to a hole in the ditch and hid it there, until he would be going home. He was called to his dinner and when he came out he looked at the crock of gold to see if it were there and he was afraid the leprechaun might come and carry it. It was there, and he kept on working. After a few(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry