School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)

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1. Leipreachán Stories (continued)

   

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   He is supposed to be very small only about three or four feet in height and always dresses in new clothes and cap, which are usually red or sandy coloured. He makes his livelihood on shoe-making and old people say that he is found, where old treasures were hidden in olden days, and that he stored them away carefully and thereby he is supposed to be very, very rich. Others day that during the troubled times in Ireland, wealthy old people buried their money in local fields thinking that they would be raided, and, that the leipreachan, knowing their hiding place came at night and stole away the money. An old woman, named Anne Sheffington in those troubled times, buried her money in a pot in her garden and left some mark over it in order that she would be able to recognise it. After a few

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
         1. leprechauns (~1,007)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Drury

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Boyle, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mr P. Martin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cartron, Co. Roscommon