School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha (roll number 12410)
- Location:
- Ballincloher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 389
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“The Leipreachan is a fairy. The people around here call him "The Luharagán".”
(continued from previous page)the little man up on the tree and he tapping away at the shoe and Mick said Mr Lukaragan tell me where is your gold, but Lukaragan was making every kind of a face at him and at the end the man got afraid of him and he went away. They say that if you saw a Leprechaun and that if you took your eyes off him that he would disappear. There was another man who caught a Leprechaun and brought him into the house to his wife but the Leprechaun made such faces that his wife got weakness and he had to leave him go. He has a purse and they say that if you had the purse and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Sheehy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Sheehy
- Gender
- Male