School: Moyne (B.) (roll number 13989)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Doyle
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- In my district the leipreachan is generally known as a geanncanach. He is about one foot high. He is dressed in a red jacket and blue cap. It is supposed that he lives in a cave under a lone bush. It is supposed that his usual occupation is shoemaking. I often heard my father say that if you take your eyes off a geanncanach at all he will disappear. I heard the following story from a man named John Mulligan that one night he was coming home off his ceilidh in the neighbour's house. He saw a little geanncanach standing at the root of a lone bush that he had to pass by. He caught hold of him and he asked him to tell him where he would get a pot of gold. The geanncanach said that he did not know of any but there is a man behind you knows where you will get it. So he looked around but the man was not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Gray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Birrinagh, Co. Longford