School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)they was her coming, they ran away. One day, she saw a child looking at her with frightened eyes. On account of this she became very angry and cursed the child from that day on the child became weaken and more hung and in the end she died.
- The Leipreachán is locally known as the Lutharagán, or Lochryman, or Clurachán. He is usually dressed in a scarlet cap and coat and green breeches. He is about eighteen inches in height. He lives in a [fourth] fort where he is generally occupied by shoemaking. He is supposed to carry a crock of gold about with him. Long ago there lived a farmer in this district. One day he saw a leipreachán(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Tisdall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Coakley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork
