School: Summerville (roll number 622)
- Location:
- Summerville, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: John Burke
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- (continued from previous page)or sometimes mending them. I do not know have he any other occupation. There are no stories about the lepricaun in my townland. There are no stories of people who endeavoured to take his gold. I do not know are leipricauns friendly beings. I do not know did they revenge people who interfered with him.
Mermaids were not ever caught in this district. - There is an old ruined church in the townland of Kilmacleague. It is inside the clay cliff of the Back-Strand. There is a tradition about it. There is a stone inside the door with a hollow in the middle of it. This was for the holy water. The hottest day in summer this hollow is always damp. No one remembers(continues on next page)