School: An Tobar
- Location:
- Tubber, Co. Galway
- Teacher: P. Ó Súilleabháin
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- Fiddane castle is in Co Galway, near the village of Tubber. It was built by the O'Shaughnessys about the year 1600.
There was a Leprechaun often seen in an old quarry which was covered with blackthorn bushes beside the Black Lake near Fiddane Castle. All the people who lived around the place often heard him hammering, but none of them could catch him, though many of them tried to do so. But one day a man named Darby the Painter, who trade was pulling, and selling blackthorn sticks went to where the Leprechaun was supposed to be, and while pulling a stick he was taking some stones out of the way for fear they would injure the knob of the stick. Then the Leprechaun ran out and Darby ran after him, and had him nearly caught when the Leprechaun jumped into the lake, and Darby jumped after him. Darby was a fine swimmer, and was just going to catch him when the Leprechaun dived. Darby not to be beaten dived after him, and when Darby was coming(continues on next page)
