School: Tagoat (roll number 5990)
- Location:
- Tagoat, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Coilféir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 152
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- The little leprechaun is known locally as the lurachan, the wee man and the far-shee. He is about a foot tall. He is dressed in a brown jacket with a green pants, which is very tight at the knee and laced below it. He wears white shoes with turned up toes and silver coloured buckles, and a green cap tapering at the top. He lives in an old ruined rath, under a rock in a hole in the foot of a tree.
His usual occupation is mending fairies' shoes and guarding a crock of gold.
It is said locally that the present Mr Hayes father of Lough, Tagoat, caught him and succeeded in getting his crock of gold.
- Collector
- Peter Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Wexford
