School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)from work at nightfall. He went into a shady grove to light his pipe at the Strand. When he had his pipe lit he saw a wee man standing beside him. The man was frightened and looked at the little man. Then the little man disappeared. The man said it was a leipreachan
- The leipreachan is about six inches high. He wears a tall hat and a red jacket. He lives under a tree in the middle of a field. It is said if you cut down a tree where the leipreachan is supposed to be he will come around the house. He earns his money by making shoes.Sometime you might hear "tic-tac tic-tac" well that would be the leipreachan making shoes.
- Collector
- Mary Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballylusk, Co. Laois
