School: Lorrha (B.) (roll number 600)
- Location:
- Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 043
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- Funny StoriesThere are many funny stories told about places in this parish. The old Irish were very witty and they made names for the places where anything funny happened.There is a farm in the district called Liosagada. One night there was a young many going home from rambling. He got into a field and he saw a Leiprecan. Before the Leiprecan could get away the many seized him, and asked him for the purse of gold. The Leiprecan refused at first, but after a while he told the man where the gold lay hidden. The man saw a thistle near where the gold was, and he put a gad around it. He went home for a bar a spade and a light, and when he came back there was a gad around every thistle in the field.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Uinnseoin De Bourctier
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
