School: Doohamlet
- Location:
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac an Bháird
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- (continued from previous page)saw what made his heart leap, for seated under a large furze bush was a Leprechaun mending shoes for the "Good people".
Stealing over very gently he seized the little fellow, and told him to take him to where he could find a crock of gold. The Leprechaun tried all his means to get the shoemaker to look back but in vain.
The Leprechaun led him to a fairy rath in the oghill rocks, and told him to come in the morning and at the foot of the lone-bush that grewt in the middle of the rath he would find a crock of gold.
When he went to dig next morning at the lone-bush he was surprised when after digging for a long time, he came upon a large box. He would not wait to go home to open it but opened it at the place.
When he opened it he was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Rice
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mas Mulligan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
