School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha (roll number 12410)
- Location:
- Ballincloher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 391
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“The Leipreachan or Logharaghan is about three feet in height.”
The Leipreachan or Logharaghan is about three feet in height. They are usually dressed in red or green, and takes with them nearly a crock of gold. They wear a long pointed cap very much like "the clowns cap". They wear a green jacket and a red pants. They dwell in shady, dry, lonely places where they are all alone, and where nobody can see them. Their work is singing and sometimes shoemaking and gathering dew from the grass.
In a solitary farm in Abbeydorney four Leipreachans were seen by a woman a who was going to the village. They were dressed in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvrin, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Norah Walshe
- Gender
- Female