School: Mercy Convent
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: The Sisters
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 141
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- There is supposed to be a Leipreachan in this district. He is about one foot high. He usually wears a green coat and a green trousers and a red cap and buckled shoes and red stockings and he lives under a road-stool. He lives on cuckoo sorrel and other wild fruit.
My mother told me the following story about a Leipreachan. One day an old man was going through a field and he sat down to rest as he had a sore foot. As he was resting he was looking about a the flower and he saw a little man sitting on a toad-stool mending his shoe singing. He had a jug of water beside him and now and then he would take a drink
The man watched him for a while and then he crept(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie O' Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilconny, Co. Cavan
