School: Ballinard (B.), Cnoc Luinge
- Location:
- Ballinard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 080
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - One day a girl was walking through a moat when a little man came up to her and said to her that he would put a task on her to guess his name giving her three days to do so. "If you guess it" he said "I will knit a shawl for you", but if you don't guess it I will take you away with me. So when he was knitting the shawl he used to say: "She don't know my name but "Tippy Toe" is my name".
One day a woman was passing by a bush and she heard the words and she told the girl what the little man was saying. Then the girl went to the moat and told him his name. The little man said: an old woman told you my name. He then gave her the shawl.
