School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 214
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- When I was speaking to my grandmother last night, I asked her all about the Leipreachain. She told me that the Leipreachain was a small little man about three inches high. The Leipreachain wears a little jacket, green stocking made of leaves and two little shoes. My grandmother told me that she heard her father saying that the Leipreachain has a beautiful castle down under a tree.
Most of the Leipreachains are shoemakers and long ago they were to be seen sitting busily working making a shoe about the size of a thimble. My grandmother never saw a Leipreachain but she often heard her father saying that Johny Cosgrave Kathleens father’s grandfather saw one, this man is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curryaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curryaun, Co. Mayo
