School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)
- Location:
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 015
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- (continued from previous page)after. They often looked for the little man and they could not get him.
- Once upon a time there lived a man called Mike the Turner. He made quarts and gallons and the market mornings he had to be up early to be before another quart man. He and his wife Mary having loaded, they set out. After a while he went into a house to light his pipe. Then he resumed his journey but Mary kept ahead of him. Suddenly he met with a red jacket and recognized him to be a Leprauchan.
He grasped him and held him tightly. He asked him for the crock of gold. He told him he would give him any three wishes he would ask for and Mike agreed. He called Mary back and while she was coming, Mike's first wish was that he would be the best quart-maker in the world and that was the first wish gone. When Mary found(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick T. Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockavoreen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockavoreen, Co. Cork
