School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 216
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- A Lepreachán
The lepreachán is dressed with a green jacket and cap, white trousers and white stockings. They used to live under a lone bush in the fields. Long ago there were not very many clocks and the people would be up very early. They would be so early that they used to see fairies on the roads. One morning a man named Brady was going to the market.
He saw a little man dancing in the ditch and he said "Brady come and dance with me". Brady danced with him until the little man went away. They were very lucky thing to meet in the morning if a person did what they were told to do.
- Collector
- Katie Crawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcroney, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mat Crawley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcroney, Co. Louth
- (continued from previous page)The hammer was very small. He had a little pipe like an acorn.
