School: Saggart
- Location:
- Saggart, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Michael Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 382
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About a quarter of a mile from Newcastle on the Brownstown road there is a moate. There is a lane leading to it called the Palace Lane. This night there was a man named Jack Mahon walking up beside the moate. He was suddenly lifted up in the air and carried two miles away from the moate.
Another schoolboy named Johnny Fitzgerald, was hunting and he was passing the moate, he saw sitting there, a little man dressed in red. He raced home in a great fright, and when he got there he had to go to bed, because of a dreadful sick feeling which made him shiver all over. The boy said it was a fairy shoemaker he saw or leprechaun.
