School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eóin
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- (continued from previous page)The Leipreacan is very friendly and will not harm anybody if left alone.
Some years ago a workman named James Kelly was cutting furze up near Frankford and the day being hot he took off his coat and vest and left them on the fence. At dinner time he could not find the clothes and he was surprised as nobody had come into the field while he was there. He used to sleep in an old disused house on the farm in a lonely place and one night as he was in bed a small man came in the door about midnight and asked him was he troubled(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- T. Davis
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Postman