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School: An Cillín (roll number 16603)

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Killin, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Eachlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 291

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    who was very fond of rambling and then staying out late at night.
    One night when he was coming home he met a troupe of Leprechauns. These Leprechauns compelled him to join them and when were walking for a long time over hill and dale the man got so tired that the put him on a heifer's back which carried him along the way. When they were a long while walking they reached a lough, which they made the heifer leap, with the man on his back. The man said "If you had to leap to the middle it would have been a good leap". When he awoke in the morning he was on the heifers back in the middle of the lake.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. leprechauns (~1,007)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Teresa Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Anne Meehan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    77
    Address
    Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal