School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 348
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- (continued from previous page)is dressed in a red jacket and cap a yellow trousers and silver shoes. Here are some short stories about them.
There was a man walking in a wood and he saw a leprachaun. He caught him and asked him for a pot of gold. He told him to look at the lady at his side and he would get it. The man looked and the leprachaun disappeared.
One day a woman was in a field and she saw a little man mending shoes under a tree. She caught him and she took him to the top of a hill. There was a castle under them. The leprachaun said "Look Castle Caarbery is on fire". She looked and the leprachaun disappeared."
There was once a man walking through the fields looking at his cattle(continues on next page)
