School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)always wishing that some day he would catch a Leipreachan.
One day as he was bringing in the cows he suddenly heard some tapping behind him.
He looked around and there was a Leipreachan mending shoes and he put out his hands and caught him.
He struggled fiercly to free himself but the boy would not let him go. He asked him where was there a crock of gold hidden.
The Leipreachan pretended that he did not know what gold was.
At last he told the boy that he would show him where a crock of gold was hidden.
So the boy took of his collar and tie and tied it round his neck and led him along.
The Leipreachan kept running through hedges and it was no easy job for the boy to keep up to him.
Till at last he stopped before a field of thistles and the Leipreachan said under the tallest thistle in the middle of the field it was hidden. So the boy took out a piece of red cloth out of his pocket and left it on the thistle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
