School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 258
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“There was a family living in Ballylongford by the name of Burk and they were very poor.”
(continued from previous page)it was all gold. The other man threw in a couple shovels of frogs in his bag to frighten his mother when he would go home. When he went home he threw them out in the floor and they were all gold. After that the Burks were the richiest people in Ballylongford.
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“The old people used to believe that if you caught a Leprechaun and pretended to kill or burn hum he would give you a pot of gold.”
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- Kathleen Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry
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- Mrs Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry