School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 363
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- (continued from previous page)Too tricky for them all. They say he has plenty of gold and he is very good natured. One day a man and a woman were going to a fair and they saw a leipreachan in a hedge and they surrounded him. He gave the woman one wish and the man two wishes. What ever they wished for, they would get it. The woman was not long at the fair till she saw a tinner with tins, and she wished for one and she got it. The mans seeing how she had spent her wish, he wished she might carry it on her head and it was there. The result was that he had to wish that it was off again so that was the three wishes.
- Collector
- James Dooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Henry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
