School: Clochar San Pól, Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 13026)

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1. Story of a Leipreachan (continued)

   

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   went to hunt rabbits at 4 o'clock in the Ballyriggan Wood. As he went thought his own fields he saw his cows being driven toward him by a Leipreachan. As he approached the little man disappeared. When he reached the place from where the Leipreachan had disappeared he found a wooden shoe. He brought this home with him but a neighbour told him to put it back where he got it. He did so and never saw the little man again.

   

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2. Story of a Liss

   

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   Not far from Kilfinane lived a woman with her three children. Every morning she sent the children to school, but the oldest never went. The teacher asked the mother why the oldest girl never went , and when the mother asked the daughter why she did not go to school she told this story. Every morning when she was passing a nearby liss a red-haired woman came out and compelled her to go in and

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   U.B. Fox

   Gender

   Unknown

   Address

   Kilfinane, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Michael Dawson

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Address

   Cush, Co. Limerick