School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Áth an Dúin, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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- (continued from previous page)the meadow, and when he was passing a lone bush near the fort, he saw a little man sitting on a stool under the bush, and he had a boot, and a hammer in his hand. The man went towards him; but before he was gone far the little man was gone out of sight. He had a red cap on him, and a blue coat, and white breeches, and he was about 3 ft high, and he had a face like an old man.
The man went to the meadow, and he came back the same way; but when he went home the horse which he was drawing the hay with was dead, and the man said that the little man was a Leipreachan, and he was never seen anymore. - The Mermaid lives in the sea, and it is a sign of great disaster to see one, and if a person sees one on a ship it is a sign that the ship will sink. There was a ship out about(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eadargóil, Co. Liatroma