School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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- This fairy is called the Leipreachan. He is said to be a very small little fellow. People say he is dressed in red. He lives under a fairy tree in (il) a glen. He makes shoes and boots for the fairies to dance with. There is a glen at the of our house, and fairies are supposed to have lived in it long ago. I never heard any stories about the Leipreachan. I never heard of the Leipreachan helping people.
- Collector
- Margaret Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballylusk, Co. Laois
- The leipreachan is known to be a small man about a foot high. It is said that he wears a little blue cap and a red coat. He is supposed to live with the fairies.There was a local man in this parish who saw a leipreachan at the StrandThis man is supposed to have been coming home(continues on next page)