Long ago there lived a Castlegrace man in Dublin, and he used be opening boxes of vegetables that came in from the country. One day when he was opening a box, he heard a noise in it, which made him afraid, because he knew not what was inside, but after a while on opening it a leprechaun jumped out. The man asked him where was he from, whereupon the leprechaun said he was from Boherbue at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains. The leprechaun said he would give the man anything he asked for if only he would bring him back to Boherbue. The man hadn't much wages, so he asked the leprechaun if he could devise a plan to make his boss give him an increase. The leprechaun said he would, so the man and the leprechaun went into the manager's office. The leprechaun stole the key of the money drawer, and the man asked for the increase on his wages. When the manager went to the money drawer he found it was locked and the key gone. He said he would give the man

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Once a man from the Valley was down on the sandy-bank after rabbits one night and he saw a man making a pair of shoes. He came to him and he asked him for whom was he making the shoes, and the Leprechaun said for himself The man caught the Leprechaun and he would not let let him go until he would give him pot of gold. The man asked the leprechaun where had he his pot of gold and the leprechaun said he had no gold any nearer than "carain." The leprechaun If you let me go I will bring you some of it, the mantas not pleased with some of the gold he wanted at all, the man brought him to where the gold was. The leprechaun was going to where he had the pot of gold, and he told the man to look over at the big fire on the side of Dugort hill, the man looked and when he turned back the Leprechaun was gone The man looked for the leprechaun but he could not get him, he went home

A Leprechaun is supposed to be about one foot high. He wears a red cap and a green coat. He lives in a fort, and his occupation is shoe-making. He makes and repairs shoes for the fairies. He is supposed to have a large pot of gold, which he keeps buried underground in the fort. When a person catches a Leprechaun he must keep looking at him. If he looks away the Leprechaun will disappear. When caught, a Leprechaun tries in every way he can to make a person who caught him look away. Once, a man was coming home from town late at night. When passing a fort he heard a sound as if someone were mending shoes. He went into the fort, and he saw a Leprechaun working away on a shoe. He began to steal towards him, but just then the Leprechaun saw him. He took a handkerchief from his pocket and threw it towards the man. The man stooped to pick it up, and when he looked again the Leprechaun had disappeared. A Leprechaun punishes those who interfere with him or his fort. Once a man cut a tree in a fort, and his cows gave no milk for the remainder of the year.
A mermaid is supposed to half a woman and half a fish. She has the body of a woman

say but where is that crock of gold.”
“I wish you would'nt squeeze me so tightly” he moaned “Please let me go” Pat said nothing but kept his eyes on the tiny fellow. So at last the Leprechaun said, “Oh all right, have it your own way, come on.” When Pat heard the Leprechaun agreeing to show him where the crock of gold was, he did not say a word. He wanted to make sure that the fairy could play no trick on him. When Pat did not answer him he Leprechaun said, “I may as well show you where to find the gold. “Come on.” Pat held the Leprechaun tightly, in his left hand and a leather strap round the fairy's waist, and led him along. The Leprechaun ran like a hare over ditches. The fairy suddenly stopped, and Pat found himself in a wood. “Now will you let me go” asked he Leprechaun. “Where's that

There was a man digging potatoes in a field in Ballygeeher. He was wearing a bad pair of boots and were in need of being mended. After a while he thought he heard a voice saying "I will mend your boots". He looked up and a leprechaun sitting on the ridge beside him mending boots.
The man asked the leprechaun to mend his boots and the leprechaun said he would. The man took off his boot and gave them to the Leprechaun. The Leprechaun said he would have the boots for him in the evening. When evening came the man went to the place he had given the Leprechaun his boots, but the leprechaun was gone and had the man's boots away with him.
There was a Leprechaun living between Cloonart and Anacullen. He was a small man about 18 inches in height. He wore a tight dress and red cap on him. He was seen by several people about 50 years ago. He was a very cunning little man and very smart. No one could ever catch him. There was also a Leprechaun in Cloonen. He was about 18 inches in height and he was a shoe-maker. He used to be seen

time Paddy was sauntering along whistling gaily, when on raising his eyes what did he see right in front of him beside the Fort, but a wee little man seated on a stool hammering away at his shoe. A Leprechaun, thought Paddy, as he darted forward + seized the Leprechaun and shouted "I have you at last, where is the crock". You have me all right, said the Leprechaun, but give us a chance, don't shake the life out of me, and I will show you. The crock is in the bog beyond but the ground is very soft and you must tie your shoes very well. Look, one of your shoes is nearly off. Ah you old cock, said Paddy, that won't do. You know old Johnny told Paddy that he should never take his eyes off the Leprechaun, for if he did the Leprechaun would vanish. Just at that moment another man Joe Cassidy came along the path, and when he saw Paddy holding the Leprechaun began to congratulate him on his good fortune. Both of them became so excited, that Paddy for a moment, took his eyes off the Leprechaun, who instantly vanished leaving Paddy standing there to mourn the loss of his crock of gold.

There is an old story told in this district about [?] man who got the gold of a leprechaun; his name was Dan Murphy and he lived in Filemuck

Many stories are told about leprechaun. It is believed that every leprechaun possesses a pot of gold. Many greedy people have endeavoured to steal the gold, but all efforts were rendered in vain.
Long ago a man named James Rocke, passed by a shady nook in which the leprechaun was supposed to dwell. He was surprised to hear the faint tapping of the leprechaun's hammer. He siezed him by the neck, and demanded the pot of gold; the leprechaun said the gold was hidden away. The man and the leprechaun went in search of the gold. The leprechaun suddenly looked back and he screamed. "Run or the bull will kill you". The man looked back but he saw no bull, and he was also surprised

Many people in this locality believe in the leprechaun. They believe that he is a small fellow about three feet in height. They also believe that he is dressed in red always. He works at making boots and it is supposed that he has a crock of gold hidden somewhere. If a person catches a leprechaun he might obtain the gold if he keeps his eye on the leprechaun. The leprechaun would try every plan to escape.

Long ago there lived an old man in the village of Wingfield [Churchfield]. His name was John Boyle [Pat Forde] and this is the way he told the story of how he caught the Lerechaun. One night this man stayed out visiting very late and as he a coming home he saw a Leprechaun sitting inside the fence and he had a shoe on his knee. When John saw him he stood and look at him for some time and at last the leprechaun began to run round the field and John ran after him and they were runnig round the field for some time, but John could not catch him. He stood up-on the fence so he could see where the Leprechaun went and he took off his jacket and vest because he thought he would be able to run much faster and that he might catch the Leprechaun. So he left his jacket and vest on the fence after him and he ran off as fast as he could after the Leprechaun. But the

A Leprechaun
One night at a late hour a man was passing through a wood and he heard hamring. Suddenly he taught to himself that it was a Leprechaun that was mending boots. He walked slowely to the place where he thought he heard the hammring and cot the leprechaun by the neck and asked him for his purse of money. The leprechaun said that he had no money and the man began to choce him the leprechaun put his hand in his pocket and took out a box of sung [snuff?] and threw it into the mans face

again there was no trace of the little man. He knew then that he was a leprechaun. There was a fort near the place and this man had to pass through it on his way home. As he was going near the fort he saw the leprechaun sitting under a tree sowing a shoe. The man stole up to him and caught him and the man said to him "Give me out your purse of gold or I will carry you home and burn you in the fire". "I have no money" said the leprechaun "I am only a poor cobbler". There were cattle in the field and they gathered round them and started pucking each other. "Look" said the leprechaun "one of the cows is dead" the man looked back to see the cow and when he turned round the leprechaun was gone.

There was a boy named Charles Brennan of Scartlea Listowel. He was coming home from Inch of Scartlea, and he met with a Leprechaun, and stealing upon him he caught him. The Leprechaun was mending a shoe beside the ditch and he asked Charles to let him go, but Brennan held on tight to him. He said "I will not leave you go until you give me the money". "Where" said the Leprechaun, "would an old cobbler like me get money mending shoes". "I do not mind where you get it" said Brennan, "but you have to divide it with me or forfeit your life". "Life is sweet" said the Leprechaun and he consented to divide the money, and he gave Brennan five hundred pounds. The Leprechaun went away and now Brennan lives happy.

Many years ago a leprechaun lived in the lios at Touraneena. This leprechaun was often seen but yet was never captured, all because of the excellency of his cleverness. Many people made great endeavours to seize him.
A man set out one night to capture him but once more the activity and cleverness of the leprechaun were again successful.
One night the leprechaun was repairing shoes in a wood beside the lios. A man said that he would go this night to seek the leprechaun. He was stealing noiselessly by the edge of the wood. He heard a noise as if someone was repairing old shoes. The man knew that the leprechaun was always mending old shoes so he knew that it was he. Stealing quietly nearer, it became

There are a lot of old stories about Leprechauns around here, and here are a few of them. There was once a boy walking up and down in a garden, and he heard something hammering and he went to see what it was and he saw a Leprechaun, and he asked the Leprechaun for the treasure and he gave him a stick, and he told him to dig down in the ground and that he would get a reed. So he started digging and he got the reed, and the Leprechaun told him, that when he would be in any danger the reed would help him. He went home and his mother was angry with him, and he took out the reed, he thought it would help but it broke, he went down again and he got the pot of gold where the Leprechaun was sitting and he caught the Leprechaun and he threw him into a fire.
there was once a man, and he was out in the evening, and he saw a Leprechaun sitting on a white stone, and he had a red suit on him, he asked him for the gold and he would not give it to him. He put him into a cage, he never laughed, button day a man came in, and the potatoes were boiled, and the

The leprechaun is to be seen at Carra Goban.
One time Mr Mckenna went for a walk up the Carra Goban. He saw a leprechaun and he caught him. He said to the leprechaun "Where is there a pot of gold?"
The leprechaun said "I will give it to you if you let me go". "I will not" said Mr McKenna. "All right" said the leprechaun "It is under that stone over there". Mr McKenna took his eyes from the Leprechaun and

Long ago two brothers named Richard and Desmond Murphy from Graigue were trapping rabbits. All in a sudden they saw a Leprechaun. Desmond ran as fast as he could and caught it. He asked him to tell him where the money was but the Leprechaun would not say anything. Then Desmond told Richard to light a few bushes and he would soon make the little lad tell where the money was. Richard lit the bushes and Desmond held the feet of the Leprechaun over the flame. He told him he'd hold him there until the legs would burn off him if he did not ell him where it was. Ah! says the Leprechaun let me go and I'll tell you where it is. But Desmond would not let him go. "Well", says the Leprechaun "it is under that tree over there". Then Desmond told Richard to go home quickly for a spade and that he would hold the little fellow until he'd come back. "But sure" says the Leprechaun it is too late in the night time and you wouldn't be able to see it. Can't you stick down a skiver there under the tree

Leprechaun Pitching money

crock of gold” was Pat's answer. “There” screamed the Leprechaun, and pat got so excited, that he nearly took his eyes off the little fellow. However he remembered in time and watched the Leprechaun more closely. “There” repeated the fairy, “on the ground under that flat stone but you will have to go home and get a spade or you will never be able to get it.”
Before Pat went home for the spade, he wrote his name on the stone where the crock of gold was supposed to be, and when he came back all the place was covered with flat stones and his name written on them all. He put the Leprechaun into his pocket and when he arrived at the wood he put his hand in his pocket to take out the Leprechaun but he had vanished. As pat was returning home from the wood very angry he heard the tap-tap of fairy hammers, and occasionally a laugh

Leprechaun in amazement. He stole up behind the bush, stretched out his hand and caught him. The leprechaun tried to get away but the man held him fast. "Give me a crock of gold" said Jack. "Look behind you" said the leprechaun. "Your house is on fire". Jack looked around him to see if his house was on fire. But when he looked around there wasn't a sign of him.