School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 295
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- (continued from previous page)used to happen. The man told his neighbours about it. That night they watched the cart. About three o'clock in the night the saw a lepreachan walking up the street. When the lepreachan saw them he ran away and from that night out the man never got a half crown in the cart.
- The lepreachan is known locally as the geanncanach. He works under a mushroom. He wears a red cap which is supposed to be a flower off the foxglove.
- Collector
- Phelim O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Owen O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
