School: Carn, An Léim
- Location:
- Corran North, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Skinner
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0309, Page 007A
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- In the centre of the townland of Keelinga, Leap ; there is little hill known as Cnocan na Dreímre. This hill is one of the hills frequented by the Leprechaun's a little fairy cobbler who makes and mends shoes for the fairy people. One evening after dusk, a man was walking over the hill, and as he was alone, he indulged in his thoughts. Suddenly, he was interrupted by a little noise which he knew to be close by, yet it sounded very faint. Mystified he stood listening, and he came to the conclusion that it was a Leprechaun, he stole on tiptoe to where he thought the noise came from. In the mid'st of a bunch of tall foxgloves or fairythimble's he saw a little red light and sitting on a mushroom was a little man dressed in a green coat, brown breechs, and a scarlet cap, cobbling away at a pair of shoes. The man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Sweetnam
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killinga, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killinga, Co. Cork
