School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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- (continued from previous page)at the big bull coming". The man looked but the leipreachan jumped from his hands and was never seen again.
- Long ago people believed in fairies. These fairies lived in forts in various places. The leipreachan was the grandest of all the fairies.
Leipreacháns were supposed to know where all the fairy gold was hidden.
One day a man was sitting along a river, fishing. He saw a little man sitting under a bush repairing shoes. The man left his fishing-rod on the bank and stole up behind the little man and caught him.
The man asked the leipreachán for the pot of gold, but the little man said "look at the large fish on the line." The man looked round but when he looked to where the leipreachán was he was gone. - Collector
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