School: Beanntraighe (B.) (roll number 15135)
- Location:
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dr. Mac Carrthaigh
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- A Leipreachán is a small fairy man and his occupation is shoe-making.
It is said, that if a person could catch one of those Leipreacháns, that he would tell you where to get a crock of gold.
Long ago, a shoe-maker caught one of them, and he asked him where would he get a crock of gold. He told the shoe-maker to go to a certain place, and in that place under a large stone, he would find it.
He went immediately, and under the stone he found a little box which contained a set of shoemaker's tools. He took them home, and worked with them, and they earned much money for him.
- Collector
- Tommy Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Mark Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork
