School: Poor Clares' Convent, Cavan
- Location:
- Cavan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Carmel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 074
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- A Leiptreachán is what we children call a fairy. A Leipreachán is small they are dressed in mostly in green and red and they live in forts away on the top of hills.
His chief work is shoe making. And I have heard a story of a man, one day was going down to look at some cattle in the field and he saw a fairy, he went up nice and easy behind the fairy's back and caught him, he told the fairy he would not let him go if he did not tell him where he would get a crock of gold, so the fairy told him, to go to a certain tree on the man's land and dig down two feet in the Earth, and he would get what he required so the man let the fairy go and went off to this certain tree which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Soden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cavan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Soden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cavan, Co. Cavan
