School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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- (continued from previous page)the windows. Again they passed by and our Lord was again safe and to this day the "clock" is no favourite while the the spiders are looked upon as being quite a harmless little insect
- A Leipreachán
My father has a little sharpening stone for sharpening knives which he got from his Aunt who came upon a leipreachán in a fort mending boots. There was also a last a hammer and knife got. The lepreachán ran away and left these things behind him.
The lepreachán was about a foot and a half high.
He wore a red coat and pointy cap. They are friendly to us if we do not interfere with them. There is a bush in Rathbrist and it is called the gancana's bush. No one in this district ever saw a lepreachán at it. - Collector
- John Mc Geough
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
- Informant
- John Mc Geough
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
